Well, for as long as I've been using Debian(shortly after 1.3.1 came out), the CD has been bootable, and useable as a rescue disk. Sure, it's not completely useful, but you can boot from it, get a shell, etc...for compatability with older systems without the "boot from CD" in their BIOS, we need to continue development of the floppy install method, but I agree that the CD boot could give more features than the floppies.
Dave Bristel
On 24 May 1999, Christian Leutloff wrote:
> Date: 24 May 1999 17:42:21 +0200
> From: Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mark Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "debian-devel@lists.debian.org" <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>,
> debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)
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> Mark Blunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > My latest recovey floppy is not a floppy at all, but a bootable CD,
> > that runs root the root fs in a ram disk, and then links back to the
> > CD which is a complete copy of a working debian image. This gives
> > me vi, emacs, X, copies of all the library files, and anything I'd
> > might need to repair something thats broke.
>
> superb, IMHO that's called a Live-CD. Would it be possible to
> integrate the creation stuff into the debian-cd script? It would be
> really nice if people can test Debian on a CD-ROM first.
>
> Bye
> Christian
>
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