On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Francesco Poli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Debian CD developers, > I've just read news [1] about the plan to drop business card CD images: > > | There's a plan to drop the "business card CD images" of Debian since > | they're rarely (if ever) used and tested. > > [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEzNzA > > Is this true?!? > > That sounds really unexpected to me, since business card ISO images > have become my preferred method of installation: they are small and > handy, easy to download without overloading mirrors (even easier than > netinst images), they do not include base system packages so that even > the base system is installed by downloading packages from mirrors [2], > they fit nicely even on older (and smaller) USB sticks, ... > > I think I would miss business card ISO images, if they were dropped. > > > [2] this saved my day once: quite some time ago, I had to install > Debian testing on a box and a bug in a base system package prevented > the correct installation; the bug was already fixed and the fix had > just migrated to testing, but the base system included in the > nightly-generated netinst ISO image was from the day before; using the > business card ISO image worked around this issue! > > > > P.S.: please Cc me on replies, since I am not subscribed to debian-cd: > thanks in advance!
I also hope this is not true! I use businesscard CD's almost exclusively when I need to install Debian -- for all the reasons mentioned above, as well as the fact that it's over-all faster to download as little as possible in CD-image form and as much as possible in on-demand form. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOnEPfD8S2=gpyxmsxq_w4q50uevjjchnizloypqduwvw+w...@mail.gmail.com
