On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 14:46, Chris Tillman wrote:
> We spend so much energy keeping the installer within a floppy's size. I 
> move to abandon that silly goal for d-i, and simply refer folks to 
> boot-floppies for floppy installations. It's not like it's dead and 
> buried, and it's a good match technology wise, 1990's software :-) with 
> 1990's hardware. Well, you get my drift.
Agreed.  Well, I think a single-floppy debian-installer bootstrap imge
might be a cool self-contained project for someone, but it certainly
seems unreasonable for the whole installer to be constrained by
floppies.  Like you say, the 3.0 boot-floppies aren't going anywhere.

p.


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