Floppy Distribution??? Yuck!
Why would we want to go to all the Major work of splitting each and every
package into small floppy sized chunks? This is a LOT of work. I
personally like CDs! They are small, portable, reliable, and unlike
floppies they hold a LOT of stuff. At school, when a HPUX workstation
dies, you don't see the sys-admin lugging about hundreds of floppy disks!
He takes the nice external SCSI cd drive, plugs it into the sick machine,
and fixes things from the latest HPUX cd. I just checked, at
http://web2.pc-today.com/launchpad.html a site that lists products, costs,
and vendors, and the cheapest 1.44 meg floppy drives here in the USA cost
$21. By comparison, a new 4 speed CD drive will cost you $40. There are
probably lots of places that would be happy to PAY people to just take
their old 2 speed drives out of their warehouses. I think having some boot
floppies is fine, although I would prefer ONE boot floppy that boots from a
live ro file-system on a CD, and uses that for installation. I think
converting the whole distribution to floppies would be silly. I am
especially encouraged by the rumors that Cheap*Bytes may release a Debian
CD. If they do anything like they did for Slackware 3.1, or RedHat 4.0, we
may be able to get it for $2.00 US. How much do 100 floppies cost?
-Erik
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