Subject: Pre-CD state

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 15:35 PDT

I think it's almost time to put 1.1 in "pre-CD" state. This means that it's
released for normal users given that they get it via FTP, and not yet OK to
write on a CD. I'd make sure the CD makers know what's going on.

Thoughts?

	Bruce
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From: Stephen Early <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 01:14:09 +0100 (BST)

> write on a CD. I'd make sure the CD makers know what's going on.

Fine with me - although I'll still make CDs for people as one-offs.

Does the current root disk support being loaded as an initrd? I'm working
on a modification to mkisofs which will allow me to produce bootable CDs
for machines whose BIOSes support this. This should make a no-floppy
installation possible. I expect to have it ready shortly (after my finals,
which end on Thursday). 

Steve Early
[email-masked]
[I've tried to send messages similar to this to debian-private to add to 
the thread there, but nothing that I've sent since last Thursday has 
appeared. The messages haven't bounced, they have just disappeared. Very 
strange.]

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From: [email-masked] (David Engel)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:06:13 -0500 (CDT)

> write on a CD. I'd make sure the CD makers know what's going on.

I suspect that there are a lot of potential CD makers out there and it
would be hard to get the word out to all of them.  Even with a README
file, there may be some who won't bother to read it.  That being the
case, I don't think we should name the directory 'debian-1.1' until we
think it's really ready for production CDs.

David
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