Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> (31/05/2013): >>> It would probably be good to get that discussion started early during >>> this cycle to reduce the surprise factor. >>> >>> Since it was rather difficult to fit gnome onto 1 cd in wheezy (and I >>> think some pieces were left off anyway), I think it makes sense now to >>> start moving toward something like xfce as the default that's small, >>> and mostly capable, and 4.10 (now making its way into unstable) brings >>> much needed accessibility features. >> >> A somewhat related question is whether we're going to keep trying to >> fit stuff onto CD#1, as opposed to moving to supporting various “USB >> key sizes”. If I'm not mistaken, Steve has expressed such a wish (or >> intent) during the last wheezy preparation steps. > > As a point of reference, I still have (and use every now and then) an > old laptop that has a cd-rom but no dvd-rom, and its bios does not > support usb booting.
You could still use the netinst image on this machine. There is currently no danger that it's content won't fit onto a CD-ROM and AFAIK there is no intention to drop this image. It needs a working network connection to install a full desktop though, but IMO this acceptable for these rare cases. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
