[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contentsfor slim install]

[didier deshommes]

2007/8/7, Abraham Tehrani <atehrani at hotmail.com>:
>
>
> Must we limit ourselves to a CD? DVD drives are pretty ubiquitous and I can
> see value in having the distro on DVD. Belenix had a DVD distro before.

I find that DVDs take too much time to download and undermine the idea
being live CDs: trying out things quickly. For installation, having
DVDs makes sense, but for demoing, having anything over 700 MB is
overkill, I think.

didier

>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:indiana-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Sanjay
> Nadkarni
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:58 PM
> To: Glynn Foster
> Cc: indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contentsfor slim
> install]
>
> Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Mark Phalan wrote:
> >
> >> I think that its really important that the live cd is a true subset
> >> of what a user would get from a full indiana (or solaris next as the
> >> case may be) install. From a usability perspective the closer to the
> >> finally installed bits the better - including default settings etc.
> >> I'd be strongly against delivering a gnu userland if that wasn't the
> >> default when the bits are finally committed to disk.
> >>
> >
> > Absolutely agree - very essential I believe.
> >
> > (FWIW, it would be good to consolidate the discussion - right now we
> > seem to have separate threads going on separate lists)
> >
> Agreed!  Let's keep this on caiman-discuss.  I wanted to make sure that
> people on indiana discuss had an opportunity to express their thoughts.
> One thing to note is of course space on the CD is limited !!
>
> -Sanjay
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