Re: BiDi and RTL
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:05:02PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 14:46, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > We spend so much energy keeping the installer within a floppy's size. I
> > move to abandon that silly goal for d-i, and simply refer folks to
> > boot-floppies for floppy installations. It's not like it's dead and
> > buried, and it's a good match technology wise, 1990's software :-) with
> > 1990's hardware. Well, you get my drift.
>
> Agreed. Well, I think a single-floppy debian-installer bootstrap imge
> might be a cool self-contained project for someone, but it certainly
> seems unreasonable for the whole installer to be constrained by
> floppies. Like you say, the 3.0 boot-floppies aren't going anywhere.
>
Yes, I'd lay odds once we do such a great modular clean wholesome job
on d-i, it will be simple to extract a particular subset that fits on
a floppy if someonw wants to.
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