Hi have been noticing that the last few versions - 8.10 and 9.04 esp that the install discs are
had a few questions The install disc (8.10) seems to be divided into two parts - the bulk hidden away in a squashfs file system and some restricted and other minor stuff (about 9 mb) available in the /media/cdrom0/pool/main /media/cdrom0/pool/restricted. Earlier it was possible after the base install to pop in the install cd - run synaptic and access a host of programmes that were not installed by default - to name a few - thunderbird, pdftk, apton etc now the only programmes that are available are at /media/cdrom0/pool/main and /media/cdrom0/pool/restricted which are very very few and do not help make the system whole. Why this change ?? and why are so many packages - that are somewhat important not being bundled by default. 2. Is there a way to extract this squashfs file - to access some of the programmes available on the disc /media/cdrom0/casper/filesystem.squashfs regards ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
