On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:49:24AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > > 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?
Erm, see [1]. This is just a transient problem, though - woody has had functional boot disks at some level for months, so it's not like anything is "preventing the team from offering boot diskettes for Woody". [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/debian-boot-200108/ msg00393.html -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
