base floppy images on the Debian CD
Package: debian-cd
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > if they have CDs they will NEVER need the tarball, either the machine
> > in question will be able to read the CD and thus use the real archive,
> > or it will require floppy images not a tarball.
>
> I'm not tied to the tarball. Floppies solve the problem just as well.
> Basicly either could be used.[1] Which takes up the least space?
I think split floppy images of base make the most sense. It seems
that we all agree on this point.
Split floppy 1.44k images of base would cover the case where someone
wants to install on a machine that has only floppy and no CD and no
network access.
Debian-CD folks, assume we can set aside a well-known location in the
woody distribution archive for base images, built using debootstrap
and splitting into 1.44k sized chunks, would you be willing to add
this to CD#1 ? I think we expect that to be around 24MB in total
space consumed.
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