On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > At 00:29 15-08-01 -0400, you wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > >> > >> Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes > >> for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out? > >> > > > >You are seriously ill informed, or you prefer to spread FUD. Boot disks > >have been available for woody for quite some time. Checked... > > > >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-{hppa,i386,ia64,m68k,pow > erpc,sparc} > > > >...lately? The other architectures are about to have boot disks aswell. > >We are freezing base very shortly, and this is the start of a release. > >This isn't about releasing in 20 years or even 20 months, this is about > >progressing now. > > That's what I said to the nut in our group who's making the tests when he > pretended some basedebs.tgz file was missing. I then made a search on > Google and it seems that's it. The boot diskettes for i386 don't boot.
There are no base.tgz's for woody boot floppies. Some simple checks in the boot-floppies docs could have told them that. The reason is we don't need them anymore. The system is installed completely from network or CD, or from a file called basedebs.deb (or something similar). The disks do boot. Think about it, why would we upload a set of "boot disks" that don't boot? Ben -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
