On Fri, 2023-05-19 at 20:57 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Hmm. I find the netboot installer archives very useful for rescue > purposes. This sometimes involves PC hardware too old for amd64. I PXE > booted a 20+ year old laptop with no DVD/CD drive (Compaq Evo N410c - CD > drive was part of the optional docking station) using a bullseye > netboot.tar not long ago.
You can keep using the bullseye netboot.tar for the next 20+ years to rescue boot an ancient system, copy the data off of it, and then responsibly dispose the system. I don't think this is a good argument to keep generating i386 install media. > Not a major thing, but if you're going to keep most of i386 anyway... I would hope we could eventually drop some expensive, useless packages from i386 like src:linux. Ansgar
