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Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)



On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:19:57PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 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.

I see.
Well, we all are just volunteers, after all.

regards,
Marcin

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Marcin Owsiany
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