Re: Dropping businesscard ISO images?!?
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Francesco Poli
<invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote:
> Hello Debian CD developers,
> I've just read news [1] about the plan to drop business card CD images:
>
> | There's a plan to drop the "business card CD images" of Debian since
> | they're rarely (if ever) used and tested.
>
> [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEzNzA
>
> Is this true?!?
>
> That sounds really unexpected to me, since business card ISO images
> have become my preferred method of installation: they are small and
> handy, easy to download without overloading mirrors (even easier than
> netinst images), they do not include base system packages so that even
> the base system is installed by downloading packages from mirrors [2],
> they fit nicely even on older (and smaller) USB sticks, ...
>
> I think I would miss business card ISO images, if they were dropped.
>
>
> [2] this saved my day once: quite some time ago, I had to install
> Debian testing on a box and a bug in a base system package prevented
> the correct installation; the bug was already fixed and the fix had
> just migrated to testing, but the base system included in the
> nightly-generated netinst ISO image was from the day before; using the
> business card ISO image worked around this issue!
>
>
>
> P.S.: please Cc me on replies, since I am not subscribed to debian-cd:
> thanks in advance!
I also hope this is not true! I use businesscard CD's almost
exclusively when I need to install Debian -- for all the reasons
mentioned above, as well as the fact that it's over-all faster to
download as little as possible in CD-image form and as much as
possible in on-demand form.
Enjoy!
Rick
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