Re: Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i
On 11/4/19 2:22 PM, Michael Kesper wrote:
>> I don't really see the problem here. And I would like to see a source
>> for that 90% claim. I don't think anyone who is able to install Debian
>> using debian-installer doesn't know what a floppy is. Anyone who is capable
>> of creating a bootable USB flash drive will absolutely know what a floppy
>> is.
>
> How should that be true?
Simple. Downloading an image file from the internet that matches your architecture
and even finding the one with integrated firmware and writing it to a USB
flash drive using tools like "dd" already requires more than basic computer
skills to succeed. If you know how to do that, you know what a floppy drive
is.
>> I really have the impression that some people are trying with all force
>> to smash out support for older architectures and hardware
>
> No, the support will be kept but without confusing people.
No one gets confused by that. This is a completely fabricated argument.
This is a change that is made for the sake of making a change. There
is simply no reason to do it. And I have done enough contributions to
debian-installer myself that I don't need lecturing like that.
>> Debian is certainly not the distribution for Linux beginners so there is
>> really no reason to pretend that such changes make any difference
>> in user-friendlyness.
>
> Non sequitur.
No, not really. It's much more of a problem:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+missing+firmware+problem+site:unix.stackexchange.com&client=firefox-b-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS5Je22tDlAhVQPFAKHak6A34QrQIoBDADegQIBhAN&biw=1920&bih=908
Adrian
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