Re: Bug#915706: 9.6.0 DVD and XFCE CD for mipsel are actually netinst

Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Control: reassign -1 cdimage.debian.org
Control: severity -1 important

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 05:54:51PM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Severity: serious
>
>I tried "debian-9.6.0-mipsel-xfce-CD-1.iso" and "debian-9.6.0-mipsel-DVD-1.iso" on QEMU and found that both images are actually "netinst" variant. After I chose my country and defined the hostname, the installer forced me to choose a mirror. After that it started downloading components of the installer from the mirror and ignores the many preloaded packages inside the CD/DVD.
>
>This should be consider "unusable" because the nature of the artifacts has changed.

Hi!

How did you make this work with qemu on mipsel? I've tried a little
and I can't get very far. We've not had useful installation media for
mipsel for a very long time - patches welcome...
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