Todd Lyons wrote: >Any One wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 07:10:14PM -0400 : > > >>Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >> >>I think that I am the only one who subscribe to this list who is not >>involved in any kind of programming. I am just average "Joe" user who >> >> > >No you are not. But we are definitely in the minority. > > > >>What about menu where the user will able to choose the RAM disk size or >>even better make it a portion of detected system RAM size but the 64 MB >>minimum? >>256 MB RAM and more is not uncomon this days (on my old PII I do have >>only 192 MB RAM). >> >> > >True, but how much base system has to be loaded before enough is present >to detect memory size so that you can then adjust how much more you can >load in? Plus, don't forget that every meg you use as disk space on CD1 >for the new (or multiple) ramdisks takes away from vital base system >packages that can be put on CD1. > >Linux has built a great reputation on reusability of older hardware. We >already catch a lot of flak from requiring 64 Megs (32 Megs in text >mode). It boils down to the fact that you can't please everybody all >the time. You want more stuff available in rescue mode. You want to >be able to run a system from rescue mode. Well you can. Tell it to >detect and mount all the partitions, then run 'chroot /mnt' and then >start your services the way you want. Building all of that onto a CDRom >takes valuable developer resources away from development of other >things. > >I don't want to see us spend time on this when there is so little to be >gained. But I'm not a boss, so my opinion counts for so little. And I >suppose that's what we must work on, seperating fact from opinion. Most >of my rambling has been opinion, so probably should be regarded as such. >GC and the rest of the crew would be the authority because there are >technical reasons behind all of their decisions. > >Blue skies... Todd > > Todd: "Blue skies..." means sunshine too :) Thanks for the "sunshine..." in this matter.
Irek Stroinski
