On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:26:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, to all, and congrats on the potato release. > > I've been browsing cdimage. Do we release a base system as a 30/40-ish meg > ISO that can network to enable apt handling retrieval of anything else? One > would be really useful to me, and I'm sure to others too. The base packages > (for floppies etc) aren't always so easy or convienient, and I think an ISO > image would be a really good way to show the power of apt-get etc. > > I'll stop here, in case I'm being totally redundant or Just Plain Wrong. > Please let me know either way. If there isn't such an image available, why > was it decided against?
I don't know the answer to your question, but I will point out that given a machine with a 'standard' ethernet card, and 'standard' disks, you can install off two disks (rescue and root from the images-1.44/compact directory), if you have ethernet access to a mirror. I don't know enough about CD building to know how hard it is to build cut-down bootable CDs. Jules
