Hi,
I remember reading it somewhere in a Debian doc (though I can no
longer find it) that only netboot automatically installs the base
system from a mirror, other media install from the media itself and
then upgrade via the mirror if allowed.
I wonder if it's possible to force the installer to use the mirror for installing the base system? Currently, my installer installs two
versions of kernels, one from the media, the other from upgrading via
the mirror, which seems like a waste.
I couldn't find the preseed directive that controls this. Would be
grateful if someone could shed some light.
Regards,
Glen
Hi,
I remember reading it somewhere in a Debian doc (though I can no
longer find it) that only netboot automatically installs the base
system from a mirror, other media install from the media itself and
then upgrade via the mirror if allowed.
I wonder if it's possible to force the installer to use the mirror for installing the base system? Currently, my installer installs two
versions of kernels, one from the media, the other from upgrading via
the mirror, which seems like a waste.
I couldn't find the preseed directive that controls this.
Would be grateful if someone could shed some light.
Regards,
Glen
Hi,
Am 21. Februar 2022 05:05:53 MEZ schrieb Glen Huang <heyhgl@gmail.com>:
I wonder if it's possible to force the installer to use the mirror for >>installing the base system?
Yes, there's a solution for this:
just use the netboot image :-)
I guess this is the most obvious answer for such question.
I wonder if it's possible to force the installer to use the mirror for >installing the base system?
@Geert
It is "netinst" that you are looking for.
I am using netinst. Appreciate the detailed steps listed, but with all
due respect, my question was about how to make the installer install
the base system from the mirror and not the installation media. The
listed steps don't seem to help with that.
@Andrew @Holger @Steve
I take that as it's not possible to force the installer to install the
base system from the mirror? I guess the netboot image probably does something special.
Guess I'll just have to let the installer upgrade then.
@Andrew
an autoremove would remove the fallback kernel since you didn't boot from it
I'm not sure that's the case. I tried running "apt-get autoremove" in
a newly installed Debian 11 with multiple kernels in /boot, no
packages got removed. `apt-cache rdepends --installed linux-image-5.10.0-10-amd64` (which was the old kernel) showed "linux-image-amd64" depended on it, so it was not removed. "apt-cache
depends --installed linux-image-amd64" showed it depended on "linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64".
Regards,
Glen
@Geert
It is "netinst" that you are looking for.
I am using netinst. Appreciate the detailed steps listed, but with all
due respect, my question was about how to make the installer install
the base system from the mirror and not the installation media. The
listed steps don't seem to help with that.
It is "netinst" that you are looking for.
an autoremove would remove the fallback kernel since you didn't boot from it
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