[indiana-discuss] Tim's 0.02

[Peter Tribble]

On 6/10/07, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:

> The CD would put together a base system and then the user can pick up additional
> pieces off the net. And it has to be much faster than the current install. We
> need to get it so it takes a fraction of the time it does now.

How big a base? Would it, for example, include gnome? Or java?

What fraction of the current install time is a target? With a single
CD, you would
hope that the initial install would be rather better than a full DVD install,
although the easiest way to improve install performance (don't use bzip)
might be a tradeoff against squeezing as much as possible onto the one CD.

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