Greg Wooledge (HE12025-04-09):
> I really don't understand why so many people do this. Why would you
> install using a "Live" medium instead of the real installer?
Because the real installer does not give the fine control I want and has
a crappy user interface.
I always install my Debians with GRML and debootstrap. That lets me (1)
setup the volumes exactly the way I want, (2) install from my
comfortable computer, (3) copy-paste install commands.
I consider the whole concept of installer as done by Debian completely
misguided. Installing a system should involve:
(1) a live system;
(2) a tool ease creating volumes and file systems and mounting them;
(3) a large archive with the base system, not a boatload of tiny
packages that will take forever to unpack;
(4) a tool to configure from the outside a system that is not running.
There is no necessity that an installer be a monolithic monster with all
four parts tied together. Monolithic monsters that do everything usually
end up doing everything mediocrely. See GitLab for an example.
Of course, this is not the answer of somebody who uses a live system
with XFCE.
> The second one may be more convenient if you want to run several
> commands as root instead of just one.
Not true: with a root shell, you need to be extra careful at all time.
With sudo in front of the privileged commands, you only need to be
extra careful when you type sudo.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
