Re: Still no base tarball
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> so the basedebs.tgz file should NOT be present on offcial Debian CDs,
As sombody else pointed out, this might not be a good idea, as:
> reasons a hard disk install might be desired are:
>
> * lack of CDs
> * lack of CDROM
> * lack of decent network connection (read the connection requires junk
> like ppp or pppoe)
* lack of CDROM on a specific computer, but that is connected to an
computer with CDROM
* computer, that has CD but this CD is not supported by Linux.
I think in this situations an hard-disk install should be possible only
with an CD. (And though the CD should IMHO contain this base tgz).
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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