> > > How long would it have taken an experienced Linux user to do a quick > > install of three different distributions just to make sure something > > major wasn't missing? Maybe a day at most? > > W install all three distributions on our TRI-LINUX cd on two different > boxes ... > one that is all IDE and one that has a NCR SCSI and a AHA 1542. It takes > about 3 hours when two of us are working on it. We then create a gold, > verify > it bit for bit, and test the install one more time. Before we ship a > "silver" > CD we do a bit for bit test again and usually install one of the three > distributions. > > The Debian 1.3 install is much improved from previous versions. It > autodetected the > subdirectory where I put the startup stuff and required only a single boot > floppy. A far cry from the 6 floppies needed in previous versions. I think > the quality and ease of the basic installation is now second to none.
That's great news! I have a question about this tri-linux CD: How on earth do you fit three distributions on one CD? The official debian CD release will now be 2 CD's. Does leaving out the source distribution really makes such a difference? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
