Re: Preparing the Release / Freezing potato
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Martin Schulze wrote:
> > . Our boot-floppies are not ready yet. Freezing the distribution
> > without working boot-floppies will extend the freeze time which
> > would be a very bad idea. Adam di Carlo today told me that he
> > doesn't believe that our boot-floppies will be read before
> > January. (Since I haven't been able to work on them I can't say
> > anything about that.)
>
> We've already done successful (nfs!) installs with the potato boot floppies,
> though there are of course glitches.
I did a successful network-based new install on the 29th with the only
real glitch being the fact that /etc/apt/sources.list points to stable,
which is right now, not very useful. What would be the possibility of
changing the _distribution_ field from "stable" to "potato" until right
before the release?
BTW, kudos to the boot-floppies team for the good work.
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