On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:11:35PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > It took quite a bit of effort (several months and a complete cessation > of work on the new debian-installer) to whip the potato installation > system into shape for woody. Sadly, we have *not* historically been in a > position where we can just drop in the installer from the previous > release and expect it to work, and by the end of its life boot-floppies > was such a nightmare to develop that this *was* a major blocker. A > substantial part of the point in investing so much development effort in > d-i is to fix this perennial problem for the future.
Fair enough. I have only written installers for applications, not operating systems, so I'm quite ignorant of these issues. Could you clarify why the Woody installers can't install Sarge? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
