Re: a suggestion
goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de writes:
> tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
>
> > Jon Pennington <jpennington@atipa.com> writes:
> >
> > > > I would relish covenient clear instructions on how to make such a
> > > > CDROM. Right now, we have complete images, and we have floppies, but
> > > > no instructions for making a simple boot-floppies-only CDROM.
> > >
> > > As would I. 3.5" CD-R media is becoming very easy to come by, not to
> > > mention the fact that they are much faster and more reliable than
> > > floppies. Ideally, the CD would contain the entire boot floppies tree
> > > for a given platform (i386, PPC, AXP, etc.), but boot with a fairly
> > > generic kernel. Is this doable with Potato?
> >
> > I will be trying this out tomorrow. The plan is to use debian-cd to
> > build a Debian CD with the boot floppies but a totally empty package
> > list. We will be installing a friend's new PC and he asked me to help
> > him use Debian, and so it's a good thing for us to try.
> >
> > I will report back on my experiences.
>
> Try to set the size limit right down to 40 MB (or whatever the CDs can
> hold). Might even work.
Part of the point of the exercise for me is to minimize download time,
and I'm afraid debian-cd just isn't up to dealing with the world if
there isn't a complete mirror available on local disk.
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