Hi, On Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > am I correct that this is because the DVD only installs packages > > from the DVD while the CD also installs stuff from the net? > Yes, but you miss the reason why it is this way. The DVD is intended > to be self contained, to allow for example a school in the savannah in > Africa to get a fully working Skolelinux installation even thought > there is no Internet connection available.
I didnt miss that.
> We could try to enable network during installation, but it would not
> solve the goal of making the DVD self contained.
True. But it would solve another goal (which I consider implicit): identical
installation undependend of the media used.
And the DVD could still be self contained without network, but then - for
today - the installation would be different. So DVD+net ~= CD+net install,
while DVD install != CD+net install. IMO thats better, as the majority of DVD
installs has network access.
Also I dont think it's possible today anymore, to put 2 archs and 3 desktop
environments (of that size) on a single layer DVD.
cheers,
Holger, wo saw a full linux desktop in 64mb yesterday :)
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