Pierre, Thanks for the response!
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:04 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:22:09 -0400 Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bought an Acer 6206 CD burner several years ago (the manufactured > > date > As to any s/w that runs on M$, my web pages include the following: > "This is a Micro$oft-free site -- one Windows-induced heart attack in > 1998 was enough!" I hope you are speaking figuratively, but if not, hope you've recovered fully! > This means there is NO way I will ever use M$ or applications that > run only on M$; let alone help any of my family/friends -- I've > converted several to Linux and they are quite happy now with Mandrake > 8.2 and my support efforts have dwindled to a trickle... I'm making a gradual transition to Linux -- burning CDs, heavy duty word processing (Word 97 -- AbiWord is getting closer) and medium duty sketching (Visio 5) are still Microsoft tasks for me. > I have a convinced a 59-year young friend who is getting a computer > for the first time to learn the right way... Wonderful! > her WalMart computer > with LM8.2 installed has just shipped -- I was hoping to install > LM9.0 and use that as the starting point... Good luck! > My point is that when Mandrake chose to create >650MB ISOs, they put > a lot of users in the lurch... For the price of blank CD (a cost > each of us can easily eat), here are the impacts just from my > perspective: > - research, locate, possibly purchase new writer > - delay keeping my new Linux converts happy > - training new user on 8.2 unnecessarily > - time lost researching feasability of re-organizing ISOs to write on > 650MB media (optional) > - consider waiting for 9.1 > - consider finding an alternate distro (not likely -- dumped RH for > poor desktop support in '99) Valid point -- hope Mandrake is listening! > There are enough issues to overcome just winning and keeping new > Linux converts without shoving sticks into their wheel-spokes... !!! > Those are my thoughts on the issue -- sorry I was late to this > discussion; but I had a marriage to attend... mine! Congratulations!!! > I'd love to hear Mandrake's reasoning for releasing the ISOs in > 728334336, 733544448 and 478511104 sizes... I think I've heard the reasoning for similar decisions in the past -- IIRC, they want CD1 to be capable of a standalone installation (a reasonable working system without CD 2 or 3), and CD 3 is contrib (?? or something else a little different than the "standard" stuff) -- hope somebody can correct me (because I've probably got that garbled). regards, Randy Kramer
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