Well, for as long as I've been using Debian(shortly after 1.3.1 came out), the CD has been bootable, and useable as a rescue disk. Sure, it's not completely useful, but you can boot from it, get a shell, etc...for compatability with older systems without the "boot from CD" in their BIOS, we need to continue development of the floppy install method, but I agree that the CD boot could give more features than the floppies. Dave Bristel On 24 May 1999, Christian Leutloff wrote: > Date: 24 May 1999 17:42:21 +0200 > From: Christian Leutloff <leutloff@sundancer.oche.de> > To: Mark Blunier <blunier@ocslink.com> > Cc: "debian-devel@lists.debian.org" <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, > debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony) > Resent-Date: 24 May 1999 17:57:07 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > Mark Blunier <blunier@ocslink.com> writes: > > > My latest recovey floppy is not a floppy at all, but a bootable CD, > > that runs root the root fs in a ram disk, and then links back to the > > CD which is a complete copy of a working debian image. This gives > > me vi, emacs, X, copies of all the library files, and anything I'd > > might need to repair something thats broke. > > superb, IMHO that's called a Live-CD. Would it be possible to > integrate the creation stuff into the debian-cd script? It would be > really nice if people can test Debian on a CD-ROM first. > > Bye > Christian > > -- > Dipl.-Ing. Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de > http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ leutloff@debian.org > > Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/ >
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