Re: Woody release?
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:47:02PM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> > > Size may be more of an issue under the Hurd as well, for linux will are
> > > aiming to get the kernel and core components onto 1 floppy. uClibc helps
> > > a lot under linux, it saves a few hunder kB compared to glibc.
> >
> > I haven't paid attention to boot floppies much, but if it's that big
> > of a problem, should we simply bootstrap from Linux? Put a Debian
> > GNU/Linux bootfloppy that untar's a Hurd base*.tgz, installs grub,
> > reboots into Hurd.
>
> Basicly what we are doing now. If people are happy with this, lets us
> stick with.
I think we should do this, if it permits us to join the rest of Debian
as an official architecture. I think that waiting until we hit
"Perfect" will mean waiting a really long time...
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