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Re: Question for the boot floppies team.



In my customized CD set I have moved the 1.2 floppies to the last CD.
Even the oldest 386s will probably have 1.44 FDDs by now.

Phil.

On 13 Aug 2000, Philip Hands wrote:

> Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> 
> > Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> > 
> > > Does it really make sense to ship disk images for 5 1/4in floppies?
> > > Whoever takes them from CD has certainly a CD reader...
> > > Would not be enough to leave them on ftp.debian.org?
> > > 
> > > The reason I ask about this is that CD #1 now has only 900 packages, which
> > > is a pity (in slink, CD #1 had 1100 popular packages). I don't think 5 1/4 in
> > > floppies are popular enough to be on the first CD.
> > 
> > We don't control what does and does not go on the CDs -- debian-cd
> > does.  
> > 
> > I agree the CD's should not ship with 5.25" disk images, btw.  But
> > I've cc'd debian-cd since this is outside of our provenance.
> 
> Seems fair enough to me.
> 
> The trouble is getting the size calculation to work properly.
> 
> A possible kludge would be for me to simply remove the images-1.20
> directory from my mirror before making the images (assuming that the
> mirror check routines won't spot that)
> 
> I think I'll do that, unless someone comes up with a reason not to
> before my rsync from auric finishes
> 
> Cheers, Phil.
> 
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