On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > 1.) There are distributions which only need to rawrite one singel disk. > > versa five! > > beg pardon? debian requires two, root & boot. It also requires either > the 3 disks, or a file (base1_1.tgz) be available in the top two levels > of the file system. > > Given a CD packaging, i suspect that the requirement for the root disk > could be eliminated, making it one disk (but i don't know enough about > file systems; don't hold me to this :). > > Similarly, a pair could be made with nfs support in the boot kernel, > which would require an nfs source for the rest of the files.
You are right this _could_ be made. But I do think that this should be considered for the new unstable aka 1.2 Release. The documentation of 1.1 tells the user to prepare boot, root, base[1-3] this sums up to 5 disks. Actually I do think it is more important to support most of the standard hardware components than to change the install procedure for 1.1. (Not beeing able to install on a P5 with a NCR 810 is a petty) Yours, -- martin // Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // // http://www.schwaben.de/linux // Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part. License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for $299. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms.
