
| Msg # 20 of 78 on ZZLI4420, Monday 8-31-25, 1:12 |
| From: ANDREW M.A. CATER |
| To: JAMES PLEGER |
| Subj: Re: Live Installs |
From: amacater@einval.com On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 03:25:29PM -0400, James Pleger wrote: > Hey Debian Team, > > I see you removed all the Trixie live installs (except torrent), and not a > moment too soon. A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the LXQt and Cinnamon > ones, and wasted hours trying to figure out why those installs created no > repositories. Of course, it was because you forgot the question about a > mirror. You also forgot the popularity contest question. > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ will give you images as far as I can see. Next weekend there will be a point release for the whole of Bookworm (Debian 12.12) and also the first point release for Trixie. (13.1) > I only finally figured it out when I saw Derek Taylor's (DistroTube) > video. He was using the netinstall, so I tried that and it > worked, especially after he ran into the same problem as I did, when he > forgot to designate a mirror.. Well, I think instead of just pulling the > live installs from the Debian website, you should also APOLOGIZE on that > page to the many users who wasted countless hours trying to install from > one of the live installs. You owe the Debian community that much. > See above. This should possibly have gone to the debian-live mailing list but I suspect that Roland Clobus and others read both lists. > James E Pleger All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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