On Sun 02 Apr 2017 at 01:56:22 (+1300), cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:13:26PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > Apropos nothing. Columbus knew exactly where he was going and why. He > > just didn't get there. The exact route he took didn't exist (or maybe > > philosohically it did but hadn't been travelled). But it was planned > > using the Google documentation of the time. Perhaps prospective > > Debian users could plan their journey into the unknown in the same way. > > > > Point taken, though. Web page design requires the author to put herself > > (or try to) in the position of a typical user. > > > > A good place to mention the firmware netinst ISO would be the Debian > > front page instead of 4 or more layers down. Depends on how much of a > > problem it is seen to be. Don't hold your breath waiting for a change; > > there are other factors. > > Yeah, for some reason I too had problems navigating to the netinst image and > It was just the plain vanila image without the firmware. > > I ended up going to the wrong page about 3 times from different attempts, but > as Steve has already mentioned, there is a bug open about this. > > So I agree, Mr Steve Wright is ... correct.
Of course I am...always. Buy my book: Steve Wright's Book of Factoids, HarperCollins Publishers (UK), (2005) ISBN 0-00-720660-7 > Also downloading the installation manual to find out how to navigate to the > download page sounds like something from Monty Python. Cheers, David.
