">sarchie@yellowdragon.net wrote:
> Quoting Mike Fletcher ">fletch@phydeaux.org>:
>
> > No, no, no. This would be a very painful
> experience. If they
> > didn't change much from the first version (which I have a couple of,
> > nya nya nyah! :), all the CD has on it is a very minimal
> set of tools
> > (lilo, tar, cpio?, etc.). It's meant to be used as a rescue disk in
> > place of a bootable floppy, not a complete distribution.
>
> It appears the second version gives you the ability to run X,
> and is based on
> Debian. I got the influence from Linuxcare that the second CD
> was a full distro.
>
My understanding is that it includes the install program for Debian which
will actually do a network (i.e. NFS, FTP or HTTP) install of the full
Debian. There is no way the full Debian could be included. I seem to
recall that this size of CD only allows about 70M of data.
Ray Knight
">audilvr@speakeasy.org
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