On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 19:12:16 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:02:56 +0100 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Are you saying that mini.iso does not contain a proper repository > > > > The mini.iso contains the bare minimum to start d-i and connect to a > > network to obtain everything else. > > Correct as far as it goes....
Thank goodnrss for that :). > > > > > > and that's why it fails? > > > > No archive to communicate with - no installation with the moni.iso. > > Not entirely. With no networking, the mini installer will make a bare > minimum installation from its build-in micro-repository. All packages > will be as of the date of the CD, of course. There isn't any build-in micro-repository. Language, keyboard and network are the only things dome by the stripped down installer before connectting to a mirror. Note that the OP did not have a network issue: > The installation media do not seem to contain a valid > Release file,... There isn't any point in attempting to continue. The installer cannot download the rest of itself (to do partitioning) or the base system. > If that bare minimum gives you enough to reboot and set up the network, > you can go from there, manually installing whatever else you wish. That is not the case. > If that bare minimum doesn't give you enough, you have some finagling > to do. > > If you need firmware to reboot, install with the "unofficial" mini > which includes firmware. There's an unofficial mini.iso? Link? -- Brian.
