On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:28 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > 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
Hi everyone. Did someone use other than cd1 image? I think that's the only one that will survive. Best regards! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1341959431.1953.12.camel@localhost
