On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:21:21AM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > For reference we'd like to be able to support installation of a 1.4Mb > floppy. Such a floppy fills up pretty fast, but we also will support > CD installs. With a CD you have lots mor espace.
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. My reasoning is there will be so little use of floppies from here on out. CD's are ubiquitous, the energy we spend making the installer fit in 1.4MB would be far better spent making our CD (and mini-CD) installation flawless, and concentrating on better network (nfs/bootp/etc.) support. If you say, well it fits fine now, why abandon it, then just review the severe gnashing of teeth that occurred when languages were dropped. It's far more important IMHO to support more languages than to continue to beat the dead horse of a floppy installation. Plus, we already have a working floppy installer! Well I guess I made my point. -- *------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]
