On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:36:12 +0100 Richard Atterer <deb-cd@list02.atterer.net> wrote: > No. Unfortunately, I have no clear idea what exactly must be > changed... David, can you shed some light? Disclaimer: I'm only talking here as somebody who will eventually produce custom netinst CDs; I'm not particularly interested in them at the moment, I'd prefer to wait until Woody's release ;) > - <100MB, should fit on a credit-card sized CD (=150MB) - maybe just > boot-floppies and base. One should be able to install via the net > even with hardware which is not supported by boot-floppies, e.g. > PCI ISDN cards. While I would agree with the latter(the extra supported hardware), I disagree with the former. The smaller, the better. Most of the people I know who use netinst CDs use them because it's easier than using floppies(especially if PPP is involved), and it's a smaller initial download. So, as far as what I'll be doing, "100M" is too large. Or, at least, if 100M isn't *required*, then it's too large ;) > - possibly also usable as a minmal rescue CD This is where I'm interested ;) > - *not* several varieties of netinst images, just one, to avoid > confusion of users I wouldn't mind a single flavour of Official Woody netinst, if and only if it supported everything that was needed for pretty much any network-based installation. However, these things are often used for specific circumstances, where a one-size-fits-all solution just doesn't work. The more general the support in debian-cd, the better. I don't really know a lot about the current solution, but it's probably adequate if it handles multiple boot images on a single CD. To make a "netinst" CD, just don't put 640M of packages on the bugger ;) > - integrated into debian-cd so it's easy to create netinst CDs > whenever a regular CD release is prepared. > > BTW, I have no intention of doing the changes myself, just of prodding > everybody else hard enough to make it happen. ;-P I'll look into it, but were you going to be maintaining the "official" Debian netinst CD? (Yeah, I know, it may not be Official, but the next-closest thing.) If not, we should probably collaborate and get a little sub-project going. -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / eelf@sympatico.ca, elf@terrabox.com | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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