Re: Best Debian CD?
> It may be possible to reduce the number of floppy disks required to
> install Debian if it could be assumed that every system has a
> CD-ROM. (Mine did not.) However, IMO it is not necessary nor
> productive to require that MS-DOS be available for Debian installation.
> I would like to build a Linux system w/o having to pay MS a license
> fee for DOS. Although, perhaps MS should require Linux as a
> prerequisite to install NT ;-).
Oh, I did not imply, that booting from DOS ought to be the only way - as
for Redhat, you had the choice between booting using boot disks or using
that binary to start linux from within dos which did not require any disks
to be made at all. And that's what I liked so much - I wouldn't really say
'Go on! Get rid of boot disks! Require DOS for installation', but rather,
'For those people that have DOS, make an installation mode, that can be
started from DOS and does not require boot/device/base disks to be made,
but rather read them from CDROM'.
Benedikt
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