On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 08:39, Jan Ciger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Are you suggesting that there not be floppy images at all? Should we > > have to waste CDs just to run a network install? Must we have a > > CD-writer to do a network install (of course, you can use lilo too, but > > that's a bit too complex for most). > > I guess nobody sugested abandoning floppy completely, but having such a CD > would be nice. You could always write CD-RW, so it is not "wasted".
Dunno but a floppy costs about 40c (US) and a CD blank I can get as low at 6c but usually about 10 .... I'll take the CD.....(sides the time spent trying to get the spiders out of my floppy is counter productive.) :) > > > ??? > > > > I have installed from the network floppy and used XFS and LVM (although > > with some issues). The only problem I could think of is if you are > > installing from hd with the files on an XFS partition? > > See the bug in the bugzilla - you have to create floppy with XFS tools > yourself, since the tools didn't fit on the floppy. It is marked as WONTFIX. > > Making a CD instead would be a nice way how to get out of this. > > Jan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+eJ1Xn11XseNj94gRAg5qAJ4kpeX+Jtm1VFfWslYqSnWFESHn4QCffJi0 > d5yepZMuHmH+8krkZZxDpiI= > =t+zw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
