static executable bloat

[Cristian Gafton]

On 19 Aug 1999, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> > Sorry, you are absolutly wrong.
> 
> This is your opinion.  People are not installing from floppies
> anymore, they have CDROMs.

I happen to agree with thorsten on this one - as one that has been thorugh
this ordeal several times now: even on CD-ROM, you *have* to use a floppy
image to boot from it, and that floppy image has only that much space on
it. One can not just automagically boot from CD-Rom

So no, CD-ROM is not the answer if you are talking about a bootable
CD-Rom.

Cristian
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