On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, at 1:39 PM, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
Please see the examples cited earlier in the thread, of systems that
cannot be
installed from USB.
Those are pretty vague references to old workstations and servers rather than specific
make/model. Can you not use a generic rescue DVD/CD running something like rEFInd
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind to then actually boot from USB? Then you wouldn't have
to faff keeping your optical media up to date anyway.
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php/43221-GRUB-2-A-Guide-for-Use...
On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, at 1:45 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
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,
As a tangent. this is pretty annoying, even when installing from USB I have to manually go
out and grab firmware and NetworkManager packages for my laptop. Even worse they seem to
be installed on the live images themselves and so WiFi works in Anaconda but not in the
installed system.