Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:07:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > Since boot-floppies are EOL, it probably doesn't make sense to pursue this > > any further. OTOH, will we have the same problem in DI? Will there still be > > binary format boot floppy images? > > yes, you have to boot somehow. and bootable oldworld CDROMs are > impossible. the main difference is the root disk will be much > smaller, mini packages are installed on it based on whats needed for > that particular archetecture.
So this particular issue is unchanged in d-i vs b-f. And, again, it's a debian-cd issue if I'm not mistaken. Even if b-f is EOL, it's what Woody will be shipping with, so it affects thousands if not tens of thousands of users. I didn't mean to imply at all that we should do what we can to make installation (even on OldWorld) as easy as possible. So, again, I think this all is worthwhile, even in the context of woody and b-f (esp. since most of it will carry over to sid and d-i). -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
