i86 install images

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sun Feb 6 12:54:07 PST 2005


Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> writes:
> One item that always irks me, what's the actual name of the disk images.
> There is a reticence to answer this on the website, cause they're trying
> to make one answer do correct duty for all the arches, but what they've
> accomplished is managing to completely miss the mark, to leave out the
> main data of what's the correct actual names of the images to download.
> They keep on referring to "the install disks", so I can't figure out what
> the miniinst is, or the bootonly.  I have a small universe to choose from,
> yes, but it should be size zero.

disc1 has the sysinstall, the distribution and the most popular packages.
miniinst only has sysinstall and the distribution, without any packages.
bootonly only has boot blocks and loader (useful for system recovery).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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