On Wednesday 19 March 2003 11:39 am, Jan Ciger wrote: > > 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). > > 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". > Yes, not abandon, but supplement.
> > ??? > > > > 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. > It would be nice to burn 1 cd, perhaps one of those mini ones to do all installs from. This would allow all of these special hacks to be rolled into one easy to use image for all situations. -- Greg
