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Re: boot-floppies dselect acquisition methods



Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> And for the tiny fraction of the population that is behind an FTP proxy
> without any http proxy support they can fetch it from the archive by
> hand there is no need for it to be on the boot disks. (It is hard to find
> a PCee that cannot run netscape)
> ...
> Again, as with dpkg-ftp the tiny fraction of the population that is behind
> such a firewall can get either a newer apt or a dpkg-http by hand they
> should not be on the boot disks.

Do we really want to be telling people that they can't install Debian
unless they already have Windows?
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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