RE: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-25 Thread Dean . Carpenter
-Original Message- From: Christian Leutloff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 11:42 AM To: Mark Blunier Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony) Mark Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-25 Thread Mark Blunier
On 24 May 1999, Christian Leutloff wrote: superb, IMHO that's called a Live-CD. Would it be possible to integrate the creation stuff into the debian-cd script? It would be really nice if people can test Debian on a CD-ROM first. I suppse that could be done. I've been making the CD's image

Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-25 Thread David Bristel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony) Resent-Date: 24 May 1999 17:57:07 - Resent-From: debian-devel

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RE: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-25 Thread Mark Blunier
On Mon, 24 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : superb, IMHO that's called a Live-CD. Would it be possible to : integrate the creation stuff into the debian-cd script? It would be : really nice if people can test Debian on a CD-ROM first. And it would be triply cool if you could front end

Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
Mark Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My latest recovey floppy is not a floppy at all, but a bootable CD, that runs root the root fs in a ram disk, and then links back to the CD which is a complete copy of a working debian image. This gives me vi, emacs, X, copies of all the library files,

Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-23 Thread Mark Blunier
Joey Hess wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Two seperate functions. Why are we trying to cram two seperate functions into one? Good question. If we're getting very cramped (I'm sure we are :-), it might be time to think about splitting the two. From what I've been seeing, it does look

Re: why one rescue boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this talk about the Debian boot system is IMHO just debating society stuff. I have seen very few well thought-out, practical suggestions in this thread. Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Steve Lamb wrote: Two seperate functions. Why are