Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 8/8/07, didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2007/8/7, Abraham Tehrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Must we limit ourselves to a CD? DVD drives are pretty ubiquitous and I can >>> see value in having the distro on DVD. Belenix had a DVD distro before. >> I find that DVDs take too much time to download and undermine the idea >> being live CDs: trying out things quickly. For installation, having >> DVDs makes sense, but for demoing, having anything over 700 MB is >> overkill, I think. > > For those with complicated network connectivity, an installation > mechanism that doesn't require network access to get optional > components is rather important. I had envisioned this as being the > standard live CD image but on a DVD that had a much larger selection > of software. >
A CD is the basic installable unit we'll be providing, but not the only one. DVD's will certainly be included as well, and the general idea is much along the lines of what you describe. > As the size of this software grows, it would be very nice to have an > easy mechanism for building custom live DVDs (and CDs for that matter) > that have different installable software on them. > You mean something like http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Constructor/? Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
