Re: net install CD

Philip Hands <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:03:44 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.cd
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi Tim,

Tim MCCONNELL <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi, in answer to your question,I got the image from: cdimage.debian.org
> <http://cdimage.debian.org/Debian-cd>/Debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd Then
> down to the section "Other Questions?

The "Debian-cd" segment of the URL you appear to be mentioning does not
seem to exist, but if one goes to this (rather similar) URL:

  https://cdimage.debian.org/images/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/

then there is the mentioned "Other Questions?" section, below which
there are links to images, the first of which is:

  https://cdimage.debian.org/images/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-13.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso

and is 783M in size, so less than 1GB.

If you have a reason to minimise downloads at install time (e.g. you're
doing a lot of them, or the bandwidth where that will happen is poor)
then you might prefer to grab a bigger DVD image (4.7GB):

  https://cdimage.debian.org/images/release/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

I'm still intrigued to know where you got a large image from, as I seem
not to be able to find it. If you could provide the exact URLs from
where you downloaded the file (and any associated checksums), that would
be helpful.

The larger images we normally generate are not directly distributed via
http(s) but rather only indirectly via jigdo or bittorrent, which
doesn't sound like anything you did.

Unless you have also obtained a signed checksum file, and checked that
the checksum matches, and the signature is good (which is approximately
impossible for a newcomer), I would suggest that you discard that file
and start again using one of the links above, because even if it is an
image we created somehow, it appears to have been by mistake, and if
someone else created it, then:  Who knows what you'll be installing?

Cheers, Phil.
-- 
Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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