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[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 23 Jan 2005, at 05:08, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 23:02 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> A more advanced  one CD bootstrap that gives you a usable desktop is a
>> tough target to meet.  I don't want to see the rescue environment
>> being ditched to make room for a 1 CD desktop install.  I think its
>> vitally important to keep a usable rescue mode available as part of
>> every self-contained piece of install media that's going to be
>> offered.
>
> Not to start a completely different flame war, but... Ubuntu seems to
> manage both a single CD install and a usable rescue mode.  I have not
> actually used Ubuntu, so I don't know exactly *how* usable the rescue
> mode is, but the docs indicate it's there and can do a thing or two. 
> ;-)

Ubuntu for x86 is two CD's: one is x86 install and the other one is x86 
Live CD. I'm not 100% sure, but I think only x86 Live CD can be used as 
a rescue CD but x86 install not.