On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:13:32PM -0000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Do you have a CD-Writer? Maybe. But I don't in 2002, and neither do > several of my friends. So, you're moving that I'll be unable to install > Debian without ordering a CD? > > > CD's are ubiquitous > > CD writers are not >
Well, they are becoming so. No, I don't have one myself. In the year I've been working with boot-floppies, I've done all my installations by downloading packages over the network and putting them on my hard disk. I certainly wasn't intending that a physical CD should be required, but how about being able to install directly from a CD image that you downloaded on your hard drive? Apple has done that for years, it's called a self-mounting image; you double click it and it mounts as a loop device on your desktop. If not that, we will certainly retain hard disk installation capability in some form. > > Plus, we already have a working floppy installer! > > Boot floppies is dead. Nobody will maintain it for woody+1, unless > you are going to do it. Au contraire (sp?) if bad bugs are found in boot-floppies they would be fixed, probably for the next two years until sarge is released. (History repeats itself). -- *------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]
