Hi, On Monday 17 February 2003 01:44 pm, Charles Carroll wrote: > All, > > Seems to me that older Mac, including my old Powerbook, and > the various desktops I have, all have an external SCSI Bus port. The > price of > a SCSI CD drive runs between $19.99 for an 8X read only to $99.95 for > a CDR/RW drive > with cables and enclosure. These drives are bootable so installation is > not a problem. > > As the community would gain access to more RPMs and become more > mainstream with > various flavors of Unix/Linux it seems like a good idea to me, but that > is just my opinion.
I lost Stew's original post, so I'll jump in this thread. My concern is: If people can't burn 700 MB CDs (for whatever reason), they will be unable to install Mandrake PPC unless they purchase the finished product. For example, if a x86 Mandrake user can't handle 700 MB CDs, they can simply extract the contents of the ISO to a hard drive (or to another machine), then create a boot floppy to launch the installer. But New World Mac users can only boot from a CD, so if they can't create the disc, they're out of luck. If 700MB ISO images are decided upon, maybe an additional package can be released for creating a minimal boot CD like Stew did for the earlier Cooker release. Just a thought. > > Any opinions on using 700MB ISOs? > > > > The main distro took a fair amount of heat for this, but it would be > > one > > > way to get more on your ISOs. > > > > Thx, > > Stew Benedict -- Phil Lavigna
