[indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

[Gilles Gravier]

It's more a question of offering something that evolves also in term of 
installer for the users...

Just like during pre-release, Ubuntu had multiple alpha releases 
available as ISOs... and now, after comming out with 8.04, they are 
about to release 8.04.1 ISOs. Of course, you can always install the 
old... and update once running.

But new ISOs have the merit of fixing installation bugs, for example 
(e.g. partitionner that has a problem when there is a pre-existing 
partifion over 4GB) which hit me when trying to install on my EeePC 900 
and prevented me from even reaching a 2008.05 running system.

So, I think new ISOs are a GOOD thing. And we actually should have them 
regularly, in addition to the repository updates.

Just like every other modern distro out there.

Gilles.

Will Murnane wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:05, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> doesn't this achieve the same effect ?
>>     
> Not exactly, for this reason:
>   
>> XFER (MB)
>> 1334.65/1334.65
>>     
> Downloading 1.3 gigabytes of updates isn't a problem for me, but for
> users with unstable or slow internet connections, it is.  Not to
> mention, if you have more than one machine, you need to download the
> updates on each individually (unless ofc I'm missing something).
>
>   
>> so .. why drop another ISO if the process works as expected ?
>>     
> Downloading things once instead of many times is nice.  With Debian, I
> can set up a local package proxy and fetch things only once, but I
> don't think there's anything like that for OpenSolaris yet.  A general
> proxy like Squid would probably work, but compared to the ease of
> apt-cacher or approx it's a little trickier to deal with.
>
> Will
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