On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Which CD are you referring to? It seems like you are trying to find the contents of 'Alternate CD' in the 'Desktop CD'. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
