On Sun 05 Aug 2012 04:43:58 Christian PERRIER escribió:
[snip]
So, who will be hurt by dropping support for install with one CD?
In theory, those people lost somewhere in a world of bad connectivity,
where installs cannot really rely on a working network (I still
remember a Debian installation
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org):
Well, 1 GB would be enough to hold a standard desktop installation,
while 650 MB is not. That makes a difference.
It will be hard to know whether dropping support for real CD
installs does hurt some users or not, anyway.
Those who will speak, in
Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 00:24 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit :
I don't know about serious surveys, but flash drives are ubiquitous
and have large storage. Some (many?) laptops don't have optical drives
either. For D-I, I would pick the most common USB flash drive size
(perhaps 2.0 GB) and
Le vendredi 03 août 2012 à 23:28 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit :
And in wheezy+1(or 2,...), when XFCE has outgrown CD1, we switch to E17,
or whatever the tasksel maintainers prefer at that time. Sounds like a
great plan to base our default desktop on the size of a CD or the mood
of a single
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org (04/08/2012):
This is for example why we still don’t have tmpfs by default.
Your example is wrong.
On a freshly-installed system:
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=161324k)
Mraw,
KiBi.
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On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 12:18:45PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org (04/08/2012):
This is for example why we still don’t have tmpfs by default.
Your example is wrong.
On a freshly-installed system:
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs
Joss wrote:
Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 00:24 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit :
I don't know about serious surveys, but flash drives are ubiquitous
and have large storage. Some (many?) laptops don't have optical drives
either. For D-I, I would pick the most common USB flash drive size
Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 15:06 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
We don't *yet*. The code is there (as mentioned in the DebConf BoF),
but I've not yet seen a consensus over exactly what people
want. Currently, I'm thinking an extra 2GB image would be useful. We
*do* already have a 4GB image (the
Hello,
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org (03/08/2012):
I was wondering how to proceed with switching packages on the first CDs
to use xz compression. I have prepared a list of binary packages which
would benefit the most from switching, see [1].
or we could just do nothing but reviewing the
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org (03/08/2012):
I was wondering how to proceed with switching packages on the first CDs
to use xz compression. I have prepared a list of binary packages which
would benefit the most from switching, see [1].
or we
On 03.08.2012 21:06, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hello,
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org (03/08/2012):
I was wondering how to proceed with switching packages on the first CDs
to use xz compression. I have prepared a list of binary packages which
would benefit the most from switching, see [1].
Hi,
On 03.08.2012 23:28, Michael Biebl wrote:
Seriously, I'd just drop our CD1 installs and only provide a net-install
image and a DVD image for desktop installations.
Is there any serious survey how established DVD drives (and writers) are
these days? CD images might be obsolete some day, but
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
On 03.08.2012 23:28, Michael Biebl wrote:
Seriously, I'd just drop our CD1 installs and only provide a net-install
image and a DVD image for desktop installations.
Is there any serious survey how established DVD drives
On 04.08.2012 00:03, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
On 03.08.2012 23:28, Michael Biebl wrote:
Seriously, I'd just drop our CD1 installs and only provide a net-install
image and a DVD image for desktop installations.
Is there any
On 03/08/2012 23:24, Michael Biebl wrote:
On 04.08.2012 00:03, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote:
Hi,
On 03.08.2012 23:28, Michael Biebl wrote:
Seriously, I'd just drop our CD1 installs and only provide a net-install
image and a DVD image
IMHO, Package downloader for *offline* installation instead of
full-desktop-featured CD images. And I think it could be good to build
their own installation images using jigsaw (or downloads to their own
hard drive) before offline installation. It also promotes the use of
on-line installation and
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