Todd Lyons wrote:
>Any One wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 07:10:14PM -0400 :
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>>Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
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>>I think that I am the only one who subscribe to this list who is not
>>involved in any kind of programming. I am just average "Joe" user who
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>No you are not. But we are definitely in the minority.
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>>What about menu where the user will able to choose the RAM disk size or
>>even better make it a portion of detected system RAM size but the 64 MB
>>minimum?
>>256 MB RAM and more is not uncomon this days (on my old PII I do have
>>only 192 MB RAM).
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>True, but how much base system has to be loaded before enough is present
>to detect memory size so that you can then adjust how much more you can
>load in? Plus, don't forget that every meg you use as disk space on CD1
>for the new (or multiple) ramdisks takes away from vital base system
>packages that can be put on CD1.
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>Linux has built a great reputation on reusability of older hardware. We
>already catch a lot of flak from requiring 64 Megs (32 Megs in text
>mode). It boils down to the fact that you can't please everybody all
>the time. You want more stuff available in rescue mode. You want to
>be able to run a system from rescue mode. Well you can. Tell it to
>detect and mount all the partitions, then run 'chroot /mnt' and then
>start your services the way you want. Building all of that onto a CDRom
>takes valuable developer resources away from development of other
>things.
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>I don't want to see us spend time on this when there is so little to be
>gained. But I'm not a boss, so my opinion counts for so little. And I
>suppose that's what we must work on, seperating fact from opinion. Most
>of my rambling has been opinion, so probably should be regarded as such.
>GC and the rest of the crew would be the authority because there are
>technical reasons behind all of their decisions.
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>Blue skies... Todd
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Todd:
"Blue skies..." means sunshine too :)
Thanks for the "sunshine..." in this matter.
Irek Stroinski
