On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:05:02PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > 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. >
Yes, I'd lay odds once we do such a great modular clean wholesome job on d-i, it will be simple to extract a particular subset that fits on a floppy if someonw wants to. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
