Followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this talk about the Debian boot system is IMHO just "debating society" stuff. I have seen very few well thought-out, practical suggestions in this thread.
>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Steve Lamb wrote: >> Two seperate functions. Why are we trying to cram two seperate >> functions into one? Joey> Good question. If we're getting very cramped (I'm sure we are Joey> :-), it might be time to think about splitting the two. I can Joey> see one very big advantage to using the same disk for two thing Joey> though. It means that a new user, who has just installed debian, Joey> magically has a rescue disk, without any extra work. If making a Joey> rescue disk was an additional step, most newbies wouldn't do it. There is absolutely no way, in my mind, that we can remove stuff like an editor from the installation disk. Can you imagine the flak we'd get? The point is that we are talking about the rootdisk. Obviously, even just for installation (not rescue functions), a local editor is required (i.e., for editing fstab, or lilo.conf). The solution in my mind is to allow for the base system to be supplemented by a fatter base system, for people installing from media which don't have the tight constraints of floppies (i.e., TFTP, CDROM, ZIP, harddisk). Joey> (It may also mean less work by the boot floppies guys. Or not - Joey> if we used say, Tom's Root Boot as our rescue disk, we wouldn't Joey> have to maintain all that stuff and could devote more time to Joey> the basic install. I've heard very good things about Tomsrtbt.) Oh, I love Tom's Boot Disks -- they do really rock. I use and suggest them all the time. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
