-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 April 2004 11.56, Tim Nicholas wrote: > On 04/15/04 20:05, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Question: What about the Bootfloppies ?
> If I recall correctly it is assumed that users will not run on the > boot floppy kernels after the initial system installation. They are > expected to install a more appropriate kernel after finishing the > install. But who tells them? IIRC the woody installer does run dselect/tasksel at the end, but both don't install a new kernel by default. Worse, the install kernel is not contained in a package, so even update from security.d.o won't install a newer kernel. > As such there will be no patch for the boot floppy kernel. I guess the main problem is that building the boot floppies is [said to be] a very ugly piece of work. cheers - -- vbi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: get my key from http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 iKcEARECAGcFAkB+cOFgGmh0dHA6Ly9mb3J0eXR3by5jaC9sZWdhbC9ncGcvZW1h aWwuMjAwMjA4MjI/dmVyc2lvbj0xLjUmbWQ1c3VtPTVkZmY4NjhkMTE4NDMyNzYw NzFiMjVlYjcwMDZkYTNlAAoJECqqZti935l61FwAn0unNuIETyOtcJUcWY7P/IwS KcHSAJ9wH2J0TrjK2epJow9j2nW9ilNHLA== =eZCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
