hi, Am Montag, den 02.10.2006, 11:19 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft: > from this, it's no longer a useful converstaion. More importantly: right :)
> Is it possible to have a multiple CD version that will install a basic > working system off one disk, but the more disks you have, the more apps > you can add? One in which the installation process asks which disks you > have available. Of course it is. Others are doing it. This is what we > need in Africa for now and probably the next few years. I suspect the > same is true of many other underdeveloped nations. > > A bitter irony for me, is being forced to beg someone sitting in Europe > to help meet our needs in Africa, when the *buntu Linux concept was > conceptualised and paid for by a South African. Maybe I should have > majored in computer science instead of English Literature, then perhaps > I could do what so desperately needs to be done here ;-) you can ;) my voting against the multiple CD thing goes beyond the shipit issue ... to outline the one man effort i do before every milestone release (usually alone, somethimes i have one or two community memberts helping me) involves at least two nightshifts where i have to work two days and two nights in a row to test all variants of all CDs we offer .... on: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2006-June/001988.html i once did a very subjective and totally non empiric computation of the effort that has to go into one single CD test but it might show the effort it takes ... so a minimal prerequisite would be to find more people willing to test unstable releases that also have the hardware and bandwidth to do so ... i wont be able to test more than one CD alone ... so we should probably start with a edubuntu-cd-testteam on launchpad and go on from there ... not sure that helps though, since just listing people on teams doesnt mean they are available at the time we need them :) technically we use the modified debian-cd buildscript which already offers to build more than one CD it would need some minor changes on launchpad i guess ... be sure we'll discuss it in mountainview in november and i'll bring your mail to the table ;) ciao oli
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