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Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed



> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
> alan@patriot.net wrote:
>
>>        Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that
>>        that's a surprise<g>)  Why would I take my netinstall file
>>        (167 Mb) and put it on a CD unless the CD was _bootable_?
>>        The CD would have to be made bootable, and would have I guess
>>        to have an initrd-img on it as well.
>
> No, you don't. The netinst image is self-containing, so just burn it
> on a CD, the computer will boot from it, there are no more actions
> neccessary.
       I don't need to now, but just for scientific experiment I'll
       do this, and see what happens.

Thanks for your E-mail.

Alan



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