[21121] in Athena Bugs
Linux-Athena Installer ISO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Nov 25 12:32:52 2002
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Discussion on -c consult seemed to indicate that this was the best
set of recipients. If that's wrong, let me know.
So, the Linux-Athena installer ISO should really be more than just
the ISO equivalent of the floppy. It seems, that since there is
700MB available, it would be useful to include all RedHat 7.3 drivers
on the ISO, so that you don't need to use drvnet.img and pcmcia.img
when installing from the ISO. The athena.img bootdisk could still
have a minimal set of drivers, since hotline doesn't need the full
complement of drivers. But if the ISO is going to be distributed to
students, it seems that it could be made far more useful by including
all the drivers that RedHat 7.3 includes, so that people don't have
to go hunt for a 3c9xx or ne2k-pci card just to install it.
-Jon
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