On Mon, May 19, 2014, at 05:32 PM, Len Ovens wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > > > I would like us to introduce a new netinstall type of ISO, small enough > > to fit on a CD, and useful when you don't want to install the whole > > suite of packages that come with Ubuntu Studio. > > A "netinstall" ISO is in the form of the old style ALT iso. Is this what > you mean? This is an install only media except for shell access. The old > alt installs were the netiso with a package repo on disk and an install > script to install them. Not much good for testing. > > > I'm thinking a stripped down version of our current ISO. Keep the core > > stuff, like jack, so the installer can be used for simple testing too, > > but otherwise nothing. > > We will need a super light DE setup for this. I do prefer to have a DE, > > with a web browser and easy graphical means of setting up wifi, and > > such. Also, with the ubiquity installer. As little maintenance as > > possible should be the goal of course. > > Ah, So this is really a very lite live iso. It needs a WM and a menu to > work. But could still do the install an alt style so that the the > packages > on the ISO itself would not be what got installed. I do not know how well > ubiquity would deal with this. But ubuntustudio-installer with the > expansions you have envisioned might do well... except that would require > (ubiquity too) a number of gui libs to be installed. I would almost > suggest against any of the DEs that we support so that the user would be > aware from the start that this look and feel of this ISO are not > representative of any of the installed flavours. > > It would be good to define the exact use cases for this ISO. > > --
By netinstall, I don't mean in the traditional term. Just that most things get installed over the net, instead of from the ISO. My view, as I said before, would be it is to be used for two things: * installing only what you need over the internet (so, no need to download the entire 2+GB ISO) * simple troubleshooting/testing (again, no need to download the entire 2+GB ISO). Also, it would be nice if could fit on a CD, all though the CD is a dying medium. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
