Kelly Clowers wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Tom H poked me that the netinst image can be used without a network. > > It is 168M and much smaller than the full CD#1. I just did an install > > test using it in Expert mode and was able to verify that it is indeed > > possible to use the smaller netinst image on a system without a > > network. Using Expert mode and manual selections it was possible to > > install and avoid seeing any errors. > > That is how I always install, I never install more packages than what > is on the netinst cd till after a reboot.... I guess I figured everyone knew.
I think that ex-pats coming from other distros don't realize this because most other distros, I'm looking at you RH, don't really give the option to only install a subset. The installer there is really designed to give you very large chunks. GNOME, KDE, Software Development, large chunks like those are selectable or not in the installer. Sure you can unselect any of those but the resulting system is still quite large. If people are used to that then they never think that other systems might be different. But until I tested it I had always thought that the netinst image _required_ a network in order to set up the sources.list mirrors. The normal netinst install path does complain about not having it if there is no network available. But those complaints can be either ignored or the expert path walked through to avoid it. I think most of us using the netinst image would go ahead and set up the network sources.list with basic values if nothing else and then never see any errors from the installer. Boot to the newly installed 360M system and then adjust sources.list as we desired. Bob
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