Hi Jerome,
Glad you agree to have a discussion about a larger partition size for the lite USB image. >> In addition, there could be dozens of nice little things while > Are you suggesting that the LiteUSB image should have two install > options? Something like BASE & BASE+? And the FullUSB have all > three options? No. I suggest that lite should contain BASE plus selected parts of other categories, while full should contain larger parts of the other categories. The latter based on that poll a while ago, plus the recent discussion about (not so big) things which deserve an upgrade from "bonus" to "full". The former based on a possible new poll, or on using some sort of formula using our old poll in context of package size :-) The installer itself should give users choices such as: - install everything from all categories (as far as it is present on the install disk) - use or omit selected categories as a whole - use or omit packages individually in advanced mode So yes, you could argue that because it is easy for the user to say "everything" or "base only" with the help of the first two choice areas, "lite" will become similar to "full" in the sense of having some freedom of choice. But in practice, I expect the users to often select the first option: EVERYTHING on the install medium. Which will be larger with "full" and smaller with "lite" :-) Of course it might need another round of polling to ask the people here what apart from "base" would be cool to have in "lite". Still, I think "only base" is TOO BARREN given that people rarely have any USB disks below 32 or 64 MB and (importantly) given that in my opinion, the partition of the install medium should be that size and should not be squeezed into 16 MB just because 16 MB is technically possible, even when it is not really useful. So even when you say a new poll is too much work, I do still ask you to make the lite install image 32-64 MB, even when it only contains the classic "all of base". Thanks! Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
