On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:24, Eric Spakman wrote:
> > We do have minimum requirements, and don't support all old hardware. I'm
> > just suggesting we evaluate our minimum requirements again.
> >
> Why should we do that?
Eric,
As you stated earlier, PCs no longer ship with floppy drives. Solid
state is faster, more reliable, with higher capacities.
> As long as we can make the setup small enough that
> it can even fit on a floppy (which is a nice goal by itself to not bloat
> the distro)
We can still strive to fit within 1.66M, and move to usb-hdd flash drive
as our default image.
> and _also_ support booting from other devices like HD, CD or
> USB I don't see a reason to evaluate our minimum requirements.
Why not make floppy an 'other device' (legacy)?
Disclaimer: I'm just thinking out loud, and I don't write the
code. My ideas/opinions don't always make sense for leaf.
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