Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> At 00:29 15-08-01 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> >>
> >> Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes
> >> for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out?
> >>
> >
> >You are seriously ill informed, or you prefer to spread FUD. Boot disks
> >have been available for woody for quite some time. Checked...
> >
> >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-{hppa,i386,ia64,m68k,pow
> erpc,sparc}
> >
> >...lately? The other architectures are about to have boot disks aswell.
> >We are freezing base very shortly, and this is the start of a release.
> >This isn't about releasing in 20 years or even 20 months, this is about
> >progressing now.
>
> That's what I said to the nut in our group who's making the tests when he
> pretended some basedebs.tgz file was missing. I then made a search on
> Google and it seems that's it. The boot diskettes for i386 don't boot.
There are no base.tgz's for woody boot floppies. Some simple checks in
the boot-floppies docs could have told them that. The reason is we don't
need them anymore. The system is installed completely from network or
CD, or from a file called basedebs.deb (or something similar). The disks
do boot. Think about it, why would we upload a set of "boot disks" that
don't boot?
Ben
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