Are you guys aware of: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD ?
Extremely small and lightweight, not sure if you can install air-gaped (admittedly I myself have not tested that capability). If you're doing a custom/unattended/PxE I woudl think that you are going to be putting together your own ISO/image anyway.... ~Steven On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Paul Graydon <[email protected]>wrote: > On 04/13/2011 05:04 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> I've been following the discussion on what to include/exclude in the >> Oneiric .iso, and a thought crossed my mind: Must we limit ourselves >> to 1 CD? >> >> I mean, yes not everyone wants to download a huge DVD .iso, but I >> think downloading a pair of .iso's, 700MB + 100-something MB, wouldn't >> be too much of a burden. >> >> Of course, that begs a follow-up question: how to script an install >> that needs to have one (or more) disc-swapping in the process. >> >> (Of course, this issue is moot if the user chooses to download a DVD >> .iso instead, but that's a different topic altogether) >> >> Rgds, >> >> >> Yes please, keep it to 1 disc. Certain other distributions (e.g. SuSE) > are up to silly numbers of disks, to the stage where installing is a pain, > involving switching out disc after disc. To my mind the current install > capabilities of the Ubuntu disc is just about right. A good spread, but not > too many unnecessary packages. The repository is the ideal place to install > stuff from, people are then only a) downloading just what they need, and b) > getting up to date packages. If the users are in a position where they have > no or slow internet access but instead order discs then there is the DVD ISO > that they can use. > > Paul > > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- Miano, Steven M. 727.244.9990 <http://stevenmiano.com> <http://facebook.com/mianosm> <http://twitter.com/mianosm> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/mianosm>
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