Re: [Cooker] New features

[James Sparenberg]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 08:39, Jan Ciger wrote:
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> > Are you suggesting that there not be floppy images at all? Should we
> > have to waste CDs just to run a network install? Must we have a
> > CD-writer to do a network install (of course, you can use lilo too, but
> > that's a bit too complex for most).
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> I guess nobody sugested abandoning floppy completely, but having such a CD 
> would be nice. You could always write CD-RW, so it is not "wasted".

Dunno but a floppy costs about 40c (US) and a CD blank I can get as low
at 6c but usually about 10 .... I'll take the CD.....(sides the time
spent trying to get the spiders out of my floppy is counter productive.)
:)
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> > ???
> >
> > I have installed from the network floppy and used XFS and LVM (although
> > with some issues). The only problem I could think of is if you are
> > installing from hd with the files on an XFS partition?
> 
> See the bug in the bugzilla - you have to create floppy with XFS tools 
> yourself, since the tools didn't fit on the floppy. It is marked as WONTFIX. 
> 
> Making a CD instead would be a nice way how to get out of this. 
> 
> Jan
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