Re: Installation CD
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:24:51AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> The Installation CD builds nicely, both versions, non-US and non non-US.
Cool.
> The images have turned out to be small, 200+ MB. Debian CD is fussy about
> what it includes and the exclusion list is quite extensive.
Does it exclude uninstallable packages?
Maybe adding the packages from alpha.gnu.org helps? (There's X, and apt)
> I am using the latest tarball and include grub-boot-19990907.bin, is there
> any reason to change these?
If the latest tarball is 20000925, that's okay.
The grub-boot though is utterly out of date.
Check out
alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-boot-0.5.93.1.image
please.
> I am assuming that the images need to be politically correct, ie not
> include non-free. Correct me if I am wrong.
There isn't much in Hurd non-free anyway. Nobody works on it (I certainly
don't).
Thanks,
Marcus
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