Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)
Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl> writes:
> The way to solve this problem seems to be to make several sets of boot
> floppies for x86 like:
> - high-end hardware (large disk, maybe soundcard support and a gfx install)
> - low-end hardware (little memory, maybe a 'floppy-only install')
> - (recently proposed) laptop (propietary hardware, PCIMCIA support)
>
> Are there any cons of making more than one floppies set for x86?
- we can't even maintain one set, much less three
- our current set already supports pretty much low-end hardware,
including 40MB disk, 6MB RAM, 386.
If they want GFX install, IMHO, for potato they'll have to go to
Corel. Let's be realistic people. We are supposed to *freeze* in 5
weeks.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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