On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: > > > > libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb > > udpkg, cdebconf, anna > > *-retriever and any dependencies they have > > /lib/modules/<kernel>/** > > It could be something that reads multiple floppies, or takes things from > CD-ROM, for NFS-root (it would be difficult to ask questions) > > The floppy is too small a place for putting in i18n locale info, and > debian-installer, and I think this was the initial intention of > d-i being modular.
Slightly OT: IMHO, this could have a place in supporting older systems. I think we should support older systems, and that's the reason we should continue to support floppy installs. But I think it's not unreasonable to support older systems less fully than we need to support modern ones. So, for modern systems assume a CD, just like all other OSs now do. And for older ones provide a more limited installer that works on a floppy. I even think that the more limited installer could be translated individually as a separate entity, and different language versions of it provided, rather than making it multilingual as a package. It should become a fixed endpoint which supports only those older architectures, only on floppy; and no further changes will be required of it. For powerpc, there is a clear demarcation point: OldWorld Mac and prep are 'older'. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]