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Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian rescue CD oddities
Date 2015-11-20 21:00 +0100
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On Fri 20 Nov 2015 at 11:18:41 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:

> After booting the Debian 8.2 netinst iso I noticed a couple of oddities.
> 
> First, I selected advanced and rescue, but this seemed to end up walking me
> through the installer.  I was expecting to be dropped into a shell.  At the
> screen that asked for system name I switched virtual terminals.

Ye of little faith; the top left-hand of the screen says "Rescue mode".

Your expectations do not accord with what Rescue mode does to prepare
the environment for accessing the installer's commands, Which should
change - your expectations or the installer?

It's a pity you didn't progress from the step asking for the hostname.

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Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-20 20:20 +0100
  Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Chris Edwards <cedwards.debian@cedwards.geek.nz> - 2015-11-20 20:50 +0100
  Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 21:00 +0100
    Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 21:20 +0100
    Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-20 21:20 +0100
      Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 22:50 +0100
      Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 23:00 +0100
      Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-21 01:10 +0100
        Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 10:10 +0100
          Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-21 19:10 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2015-11-21 22:10 +0100
        Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-21 23:40 +0100
          Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 00:00 +0100
          Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-22 21:40 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-11-22 22:00 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 22:40 +0100
              Correction Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 22:50 +0100
              Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-23 00:00 +0100
                Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-23 01:10 +0100
                Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-23 01:40 +0100
            Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-23 20:10 +0100
              Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 23:10 +0100
              Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2015-11-24 19:50 +0100
  Re: Debian rescue CD oddities Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 21:00 +0100
    Re: Debian rescue CD oddities <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-20 21:10 +0100

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