Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:35:06 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: fdutils. |
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CaT wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:50:25AM +0000, Riley Williams wrote: > >>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/ >>>> >>>Sure, but having to mount the CDROM means the drive is inaccessible >>>during a rescue operation, so no restore from CDROM or CDRW backups >>>is possible. ;) Mine runs out of a 4 MB ramdisk image. >>> >>Maybe that drive is inaccessible, but what about the other drive? Many >>systems have both a CD (or DVD) drive and a CD-RW as well nowadays. >> > > Are you guys trying to target the highest or lowest common denominator > here? Because the more of this thread I read the more of the population > you guys are excluding. > > (Oh but I have my 2 friends have 5 dvd players, 3 cdrws, 4 zip drives, > 7 ls-120's and a partridge in their pc and as such I must conclude that > the vast majority of the world does also). >
Different distributions target different audiences, that's why we have more than one of them. Personally I'd rather have a very complete set of tools available than I worry about the CD-ROM not being free during the install.
And yes, this is *totally* off-topic for lkml. Let's stop.
-hpa
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