On 20 May 2022 15:11:09 BST, Zhang Boyang <zhangboyang...@gmail.com> wrote: >Package: debian-cd > >Hello, > >I suggest debian release a new variant of ISO images, the all-in-one images. >These all-in-one image contains ALL debian packages in a single ISO image >(possibly all source packages in another all-in-one ISO image). Of course >there is no such optical media can hold such a big image, but it is useful for >virtual-machines, remotely managed servers, and archival purposes. The >theoretical size limit of an ISO9660 filesystem is about 8TB, which is >sufficient for including all debian packages. > >For the name of this variant, I suggest 'everything', 'allinone', 'world', >'virt'. > >p.s. This is my personal interest, and I would appreciate if you can kindly >consider my suggestion. > > >Best Regards, >Zhang Boyang > >
Sorry to put a dampener on your suggestion but why would you need that? Why not just mirror the archive to a local disk instead? Then you have your copy of everything and can just point a netinst at your local mirror so you can install from there. I think that would deliver on every use case that you would be able to use your big ISO image and more....
