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What is the difference between the netinst and the business card images?

April 26, 2017Business card images netinst

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What is the difference between the netinst and the business card images?

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The netinst image contains the installer and the base system. It will allow you to install a very basic system from the CD; any other packages you might want to install have to be downloaded from the internet. The business card image is smaller than the netinst image to fit on business-card sized cds. It does not contain the base system, but only the installer: even the base packages need to be downloaded from the net. If you’re in doubt which image to use, use the netinst image. The image size is larger than the 180 MB/40 MB mentioned below! Yes — at the moment, the size is only checked for the i386 architecture, other architectures may exceed the given sizes. The following minimal bootable CD images are available for download: • Official netinst images for the stable release — see below • Official businesscard images for the stable release — see below • Images for the testing release, both daily builds and known working snapshots, see the Debian-Installer page.