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Re: Debian DVDs



On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:28:15PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> > i don't think all archetectures can boot from DVDs anyway.  PowerMac i
> > am pretty sure cannot for example...
> 
> Well, at least the VAX and PMAX boxen can... :-)
> 
> Seriously, it isn't necessary to have bootable DVDs. Just packages would
> be fine for the first time.

except non-bootable DVDs would be somewhat pointless on PowerMacs
since they also lack floppy drives from which to use as an alternate
boot-device.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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