Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-10-01 Thread goswin . brederlow
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do we still want to support very old hardware, especially low memory system (eg. some old sparc, and maybe old 386, 486 as well) ? Then you also need a 1.x kernel. 2.0 is wasting mem and 2.2 doesn´t boot on low mem maschines. I think its safe to assume 8

Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-10-01 Thread Eric Delaunay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do we still want to support very old hardware, especially low memory system (eg. some old sparc, and maybe old 386, 486 as well) ? Then you also need a 1.x kernel. 2.0 is wasting mem and 2.2 doesn´t boot on low mem

Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-09-19 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: * eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care) Apt can handle nfs just fine. If you want to mount/unmount the nfs server when apt

Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-09-19 Thread Eric Delaunay
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Here's my unofficial boot-floppies TODO: * build for all supported arches * eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care)

boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-09-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am on debian-boot for a long time. The truth is that a lot of people are doing small things but nobody leads. No management. No decisions. I would agree with this. Enrique would probably appreciate someone taking over management and