Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:52:02AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:19:20PM +0100, Martin Keegan wrote:
> >
> > It's unlikely that a site techie enough still to be using an x86 box with
> > <8Mb of RAM is not also going to have ethernet or a CD rom drive.
>
> I prefer dropping very rare situations. A techie is able to resolve them
> easily (Plug the drive into a second machine etc).
I prefer supporting rare situations if possible.
> Currently i see the problem with the 99% people having the
> biggest hardware (CD, Ethernet, >128MB, Floppy, >10GB HD) but
> who dont have the smallest clue what a "lilo" and a "kernel-module" is.
>
> So this is a political question. Do we want to support 4-8 year old
> hardware which is quiet uncommon now - Or are we heading mainstream.
>
> My preference would be - Large steps direction mainstream, gfx installer,
> drop support for installation without cd or network, drop support
> for 5 1/4" and <16MB.
There is no technical reason to drop 1200k floppy support. There is also
no reason to require 16mb for the potato release.
Marcel
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