Re: more language support
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 08:32:02PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 18:42:06 -0500 (EST), "Phillip R. Jaenke" <prj@nls.net> said:
> > Nothing says that it has to be on floppies. Every Debian CD I have
> > used has been bootable. Since from what I understand, slink is
> > already two CDs, there is really no reason that I can see not to use
> > more space on the first CD, make it bootable, and support more
> > languages only from CD boot. 99% of current/recent motherboards,
> > even a LOT of older ones, support booting from CD.
>
> There's just absolutely no way we're going to drop floppy support.
> First off, not all machines that people run debian on have CDROMs.
> Secondly, you're being extremely x86-centri -- many non-x86 platforms
> (i.e., m68k ataris I think) don't even support bootable CDs.
I think the cd should have multiple language support. If there isn't room
on the floppies, then leave them as they are. I also think it would be
nice if the first cd could be used as a rescue disk, with more tools
(bash, backup software etc.)
>
> I think it *might* make sense for CD or Network installation to use a
> special verision of the boot floppies that somehow support all the
> different LANG settings. Doesn't sound like it's gonna happen for
> slink, anyhow.
>
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