On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Is there soemthing like a real rescue disk? Or are we talking about the
> installation disks?
I was referring to "resq" installation boot disk.
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>Subject: debian in ROM (was: Re: Editor wars considered harmful)
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>A minimal system (e.g., the debian "resq" disk) could fit on one
>of these cards, or an arbitraily larger system if more ROM was
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Rabone wrote:
> > >Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so
> > >the machine will boot from ROM... Has anyone done this?
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> > You'd need about 512 kB of ROM. Where are you going to put it? Ethercar
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Rabone wrote:
> >Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so
> >the machine will boot from ROM... Has anyone done this?
> You'd need about 512 kB of ROM. Where are you going to put it? Ethercard
> boot ROMS are more like 16 kB.
Bugger that.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Show me a computer that can boot off a cdrom... and gimme a cdrom that
>will boot up debian... And Ill buy it like a shot.
Mine will. And no, you can't have it. Most modern Award BIOSes will boot
El Torito CD images, and I believe the official Debian C
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
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> yes, there should be a veritable plethora of editors available for
> installation AFTER the base system is up and running. The more the
> better.
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> The base system should have ae (or similar newbie editor like pico) and
> the smallest possible impl
From: Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> lots of people are learning still vi nowadays for pretty much the same
> reasons that they learnt it in the past: it's small, it's lean, it's
> fast, it's powerful, it does regular expressions, it's flexible, it's on
> every unix system (and many other syst
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> The problem is that no editor is popular with everyone, and nobody is
> learning VI any longer, and Emacs isn't so popular either.
lots of people are learning still vi nowadays for pretty much the same
reasons that they learnt it in the past: it's small,
On Jun 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> The solution
> is to put up a menu of check-boxes of what editor you want, and install
> it from packages as soon as possible after the system is installed.
Not everybody installs off of CD-Rom, and can therefore make their
selection from the me
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> > Show me a computer that can boot off a cdrom... and gimme a cdrom that
> > will boot up debian... And Ill buy it like a shot.
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> Most modern motherboards will boot an IDE CD-ROM in the "El Torrito" format.
> The Debian Official CD will boot into the installation system. No floppies,
> no
> Show me a computer that can boot off a cdrom... and gimme a cdrom that
> will boot up debian... And Ill buy it like a shot.
Most modern motherboards will boot an IDE CD-ROM in the "El Torrito" format.
The Debian Official CD will boot into the installation system. No floppies,
no LOADLIN, etc.
On 23 Jun 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> (Nowadays many people won't install base from floppy, so I'd even risk
> more base floppies, but currently this is plain speculation, because
> there is enough free space (more than 800kBK for 1.44MB floppies).)
Ehhh! Ix nay! Hold on! No way man. I dont
On Jun 22, Lars Wirzenius wrote
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> Francesco Tapparo:
> > Of course ae will be used in the boot disks, but in the default
> > installation, joe must be the choiche, IMO.
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> This is a editor war. Please don't continue it.
> ...
The problem is that no editor is popular with everyone, and nobody is
learning VI any longer, and Emacs isn't so popular either. The solution
is to put up a menu of check-boxes of what editor you want, and install
it from packages as soon as possible after the system is installed.
Adding editors to
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Francesco Tapparo:
> > Of course ae will be used in the boot disks, but in the default
> > installation, joe must be the choiche, IMO.
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> From: Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > This is a editor war. Please don't continue it.
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> Don't worry, whet
Francesco Tapparo:
> Of course ae will be used in the boot disks, but in the default
> installation, joe must be the choiche, IMO.
From: Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This is a editor war. Please don't continue it.
Don't worry, whether or not he continues it, he will be ignored.
There will
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