On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:29:32PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > nobody has yet provided a convincing argument for putting the > > tarball on the CDs. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ see that says **tarball** it does NOT say *floppy images* > So I'd say about 30% of machines I see need the whole base install done > from floppies. Now, I agree that I am completely able to download the > tarball and split it up onto floppies, but that is not true of everyone, > and folks are going to be pretty disapointed if they buy a CD and find > there isn't enough there to install the base system on their piece-of-junk > machine. as i said in my post i don't have a problem including the base tarball floppy images on the CD, what i have a problem with, and what nobody, including you, has provided ANY rational for is providing the base ***TARBALL*** on the CDs. if your box can't read a CD it can't read a basedebs.tgz on the CD now can it? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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