Re: SEUL: Re: What's the diff to SEUL ? (fwd)

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:

> This initial install would then set up the real Linux partition, and
> reboot to the new partition. Then turn the initial Linux boot partition
> (the Swap part.) into a real swap partition, and initialize it.

Intersting but I think we need to nail down what our installation is going
to look like first and get it working on a clean install before we devote
resources to getting a win95 install working.  In other words, we need to
get a working Linux install first to decide just what is going to get
copied to that swap partition, etc.  I am re-routing this to the distrib
list.

> Win95 people are used to big downloads, so you could put in quite a big
> initial system if you want.

MSIE is >16mb compressed ... yeah, they are used to it :)

> 
> What's wrong with this, a no floppy, minimum user intervention setup
> procedure?

Sounds great to me but lets try not to have too many horses chasing carts.
We could have a run-time filesystem off of CD-ROM that boots and installs
too.  I buy recordable CD-ROM blanks for about $0.97 each. Are there any
Windows boxes without CD-ROMS anymore?

George Bonser 
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