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Re: Mitsumi CD and penguin logo on compact boot disks



debacle <debacle@knorke.in-berlin.de> writes:

> Hallo,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:13:50PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > > So two questions remain: Is there any reason not to support
> > > mcd/mcdx in the installation kernel and why is there
> > > framebuffer support?
> >
> > Framebuffer support is needed to support some foreign languages (JP in
> > particular)
> 
> OK, I understand.  Is it possible to fix the problems with
> vi and less?  I think most new users don't know how to fix
> it and don't know much about stty etc.  Maybe it's the
> easiest to make 80x25 the default?

It should be possible.  Could you please kindly raise 'Severity:
important' bugs against these packges?

> Yes, of course.  I didn't know about the problems with
> hanging machines.  Of course, it would be nice to support
> mcd and similar devices better, but maybe it would require
> ten or more different boot floppies and users would have
> the problem to choose.  Not a perfect solution either.

Well, in woody we're planning on having a single floppy solution which
links in the stuff it needs and only the stuff it needs.  I am not
sure how that will work but Joey Hess seems to have a concept.

In Potato, we have to sacrifice a bit of user convenience in order to
have the broadest possible base of people who are able to install
Debian.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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