Re: Dropping businesscard ISO images?!?

[MP <malexp@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:28 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Francesco Poli
> <invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote:
> > Hello Debian CD developers,
> > I've just read news [1] about the plan to drop business card CD images:
> >
> > | There's a plan to drop the "business card CD images" of Debian since
> > | they're rarely (if ever) used and tested.
> >
> > [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEzNzA
> >
> > Is this true?!?
> >
> > That sounds really unexpected to me, since business card ISO images
> > have become my preferred method of installation: they are small and
> > handy, easy to download without overloading mirrors (even easier than
> > netinst images), they do not include base system packages so that even
> > the base system is installed by downloading packages from mirrors [2],
> > they fit nicely even on older (and smaller) USB sticks, ...
> >
> > I think I would miss business card ISO images, if they were dropped.
> >
> >
> > [2] this saved my day once: quite some time ago, I had to install
> > Debian testing on a box and a bug in a base system package prevented
> > the correct installation; the bug was already fixed and the fix had
> > just migrated to testing, but the base system included in the
> > nightly-generated netinst ISO image was from the day before; using the
> > business card ISO image worked around this issue!
> >
> >
> >
> > P.S.: please Cc me on replies, since I am not subscribed to debian-cd:
> > thanks in advance!
> 
> I also hope this is not true!  I use businesscard CD's almost
> exclusively when I need to install Debian -- for all the reasons
> mentioned above, as well as the fact that it's over-all faster to
> download as little as possible in CD-image form and as much as
> possible in on-demand form.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Rick

Hi everyone.
Did someone use other than cd1 image? I think that's the only one that
will survive. 

Best regards!