Debian :: Difference Between 'Netinst' & 'Business-card' Besides Size Being Smaller?
Nov 2, 2010
I have been using Debian on and off since Sarge and it's not as long as most people but since I can remember, the installer has always had some issues and I was wondering if you guys who use Debian religiously could answer these questions for me:
1. Difference between "Netinst" & "Business-card" besides the size being smaller? It seems like the Netinst installs two different kernels. One dated kernel to get the system up and running and then it downloads the latest one where I think the 'Business-card' ISO simply downloads the latest kernel and nothing more which seems preferred. Am I wrong?
2. After I install using "Netinst", why when I immediately perform an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' are there multiple packages to upgrade? I thought the whole point was to install fresh updated packages, no?
3. Why has nobody fixed the installer progress bar from hanging on 33%? As far as I have been using / installing Debian, the installer progress bar is always stuck on 33% & it still installs fine but never shows the user it's exact progress. I would think the developers would have resolved this after 4 years by now...
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Jun 30, 2011
When I run df it shows the root device is full.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 9.4G 0 100% /
I looked at the inode usage and there is pretty much space available for root device
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 640K 103K 538K 16% /
But, when I run the du command, it shows I have used only 2G out of 9.9G.
ip-10-204-70-44:/$ du -xh --max-depth=1
14M ./etc
4.0K ./mnt[code]....
It just driving me crazy and interesting too. This is big problem for us since the root disk / is full and some of the function in our site is failing.
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[code]....
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Code:
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