Comment 8 for bug 1407714
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| Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote Re: Ubuntu 15.04: netinstall/boot installation files not found for Ubuntu 15.04 | #8 |
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Err, the above comment makes no sense, FWIW. ISO build and debian-installer builds are not the same thing. In fact, the d-i on a new CD would still be the old one from days ago, even though the ISO would be new.
netbooting, by its very nature, pulls files directly from the archive, so the ISO is effectively worthless, and I'm not sure why you'd want to download something that's CD-sized when you only intend to use a few MB from it.
Anyhow, the reason to keep the powerpc ISO slim is fairly obvious, it contains several kernel flavours (which add up fast), so we try not to bloat it out too much.
The ppc64el ISO, however, having only one flavour, could probably have the netboot initrd added to it in the same fashion as we do for amd64. I'll look into that at some point.
Unless someone can give me a solid reason otherwise, however, I'm going to make this a wishlist priority, as the netboot kernel/initrd are published elsewhere (and those are exactly the same files that would be on the CD, feel free to validate that claim on amd64), so it's merely a convenience(?) to also let you download a whole CD to get them.