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  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 
  
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