Re: [NEWS] status of boot-flopppies
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Michael Koehne wrote:
> Well !nobody! wants to install a !complete! debian, but anybody wants
> to select his favourites.
I think that this problem is largely solved. The packages needed to
install the preselected systems and/or various tasks as defined by
boot-disks are all found on the first CD of slink and and take up about
60% of that disc. Potato is going the same way although I have yet to
work out how much space is going to be taken by these core packages.
It is just a matter of vendors producing custom CDs making certain that
the balance of the first CD contains the packages they consider necessary.
What I have seen of debian-cd suggests that this will be quite simple.
> First of all I think, we need some "standard" way to produce single
> CDROM "selection of potato" Debian-Starter-Pack. Those Debian starters
> are necessary to for install parties and other events. Our Debian starter
> based on a merged "get-selection" of those people in the /usr/group/bremen
> who answerd the mailing list query of Peter Ganten for a get-selection
> of people running Potato.
>
**cut
Phil.
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