tis 2003-04-15 klockan 15.07 skrev Wouter Verhelst: > Op di 15-04-2003, om 12:35 schreef Alastair McKinstry: > > I think the single net floppy is dead, too, unfortunately. [snip] > > Because of all this, I recommend that we go to a kernel floppy + initrd > > floppy solution, with USB modules on the initrd floppy. > > This also should give us the space to have i18n in the net floppy case. > > I do think, though, that it would be better to provide multiple flavors, > then. I'm thinking of one 'minimal' netinstall-system which fits on a > single floppy, which supports most (but maybe not all) hardware, and > which does not support i18n; and a 'full-blown' floppy-set which does > support all of the above, but which does not fit on a single disk. Would it be possible to advance-ify our build process to build a single net floppy if possible, and go to two if not? Maybe it's a bad idea. Multiple flavours is nice, but not if we end up with too many! > As such, our users can choose what they like most; and if you remember > that e.g. RedHat's netinstall floppy does not support graphical > installations[1], I don't think that would be a drawback when you > compare our installer to theirs. > > [1] At least not with 7.1 it didn't But they do support i18n on a single net floppy. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)
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