Le lundi 21 janvier 2013 à 17:17 +0630, Sithu Thwin a écrit : > I'm using Internet on mobile. I can't reply with long message. > I don't think it is a good idea to exclude installer on live cd. Most > of third world country such as my country, Myanmar, do not have good > Internet connection, sometimes I need to wait more than 5hrs to > complete 100mb download.
Today I was thinking about this issue :), installing without an Internet connection. It seems we can strip the dependencies down by rewriting small parts of the installer, in which case this would mean we could ship the whole installer on CD/DVD. This would let people use the same CD/DVD or copies to install DDL on many computers without the need of Internet. I also talked today with Fayçal about this issue and told him that having a DDL version on a single CD instead of a small DVD can still be interesting for very old computers. I imagine that in the worst case, if the installer really can't fit on a single CD, it would be on a future, larger DVD that would ship more applications and all the languages (while CD's would still be monolingual). That said, installing on a very old computer would still require an Internet connection so this is not perfect. On the other hand, as of writing, there are also two uses of the Internet connection *during* the installation process: - to guess the computer country and timezone (using the connection IP) - to install Grub2 which is not on the CD/DVD The first use is optional (the user knows his country and timezone!), and the second one should be easily solved by pre-installing grub2 on every CD. Stay tuned! -- Cheers, JM.
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