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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