On Dec 8, 2014 10:35 AM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 08:17:55PM +0000, Thomas Milne wrote:
> > I'm using Unetbootin to do a netinstall of Debian.
> >
> > It says there are no compatible kernel modules on any of the mirrors when I
> > try anything but Stable.
>
> To install testing or unstable you have to use the development version
> of the net installer.
>
> > Obviously I know I can just install Stable and then do an upgrade, but
> > still.
> >
> > What's up with this?
>
> Go here:
>
> https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> You could try the Beta2 jessie installer, or the weekly snapshot build
> or the daily snapshot build.
>

I tried out the daily snapshot yesterday and it is AMAZING. The installer failed a couple of times I think because some mirrors were missing stuff for LXDE so I just did the default and it finished in 10 minutes.

Jessie is really nice. Everything on the Asus netbook worked perfectly, wireless, touchpad, and so on. Very very slick release. I can't even imagine what the advantage there is in choosing Ubuntu anymore.