Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:49:24AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:43:48AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> > 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?
Erm, see [1]. This is just a transient problem, though - woody has had
functional boot disks at some level for months, so it's not like
anything is "preventing the team from offering boot diskettes for
Woody".
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/debian-boot-200108/
msg00393.html
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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