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

[Mike Gerdts]

On 8/8/07, didier deshommes <dfdeshom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

For those with complicated network connectivity, an installation
mechanism that doesn't require network access to get optional
components is rather important.  I had envisioned this as being the
standard live CD image but on a DVD that had a much larger selection
of software.

As the size of this software grows, it would be very nice to have an
easy mechanism for building custom live DVDs (and CDs for that matter)
that have different installable software on them.

Mike
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