Sure, I tend to use it too more often than not. I just don't really see
a big benefit in making the normal install CD use more than one disc.
On 04/14/2011 09:02 AM, Steven Miano wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
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