Subject: Re: anyone object to not having split sets in 1.4?
To: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/02/1999 14:38:28
"John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> writes:
> > For 1.4, I'm contemplating not including floppy oriented "split sets"
> > in addition to the unsplit sets in the binary distribution, and only
> > including a brief shell script to create the sets for those people
> > that might still need them.
> 
> Do you mean not creating them, or not supporting them?

Not creating them/putting them on the web site. The code to use them
in sysinst would be left in.

> The complexity and fragility of sysinst's handling of split sets
> could be reduced slightly for sophisticated users if the "what media
> is the installation on" window had an escape-to-shell menu item so
> that one could duck out, pull in all the floppies, and then continue
> with a "local tar files" install.

Sysinst needs a LOT of things....

Perry