Chris Murphy wrote:
> But therein lies the advantage of a simpler optical only image, less
> likelihood for such regressions. And any netinstall can be pointed to
> any release repo, so it's not like you must have a release version of
> the image - in the worst case scenario you still wouldn't be
> abandoned. Further, the netinstall has the installer rescue boot
> option.
The netinstall:
* is not usable offline,
* in particular, is a pain to set up if all you have is a WPA-protected
WLAN,
* or in particular, will not work at all if your WiFi chipset requires a
non-upstream (either proprietary, or not submitted upstream yet, or stuck
in staging) driver,
* does not provide a live environment, so you cannot try it out before the
installation is complete,
* has only a minimal rescue environment that is actually often not as nice
to use for rescue purposes as a graphical live environment,
* does not install the exact set of packages the live image ships, and there
are technical limitations that do not allow as much fine-tuning as in the
live kickstart (e.g., there is no way for us to tell the netinstall that
KDE users will not need some tools from the System Administration group
that have KDE equivalents, whereas the live kickstart can explicitly
blacklist unneeded packages).
Kevin Kofler
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