Matthew Kuiken wrote: > Robert B. Lance Sr. wrote: >> question: >> how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text >> installer to the live cd? >> I've noticed a lot of ppl with issues that they get failure when using >> live cd...it fails to run and they need to download and burn a new cd >> for the alt install >> It seems to me that if we could add the text installer to the live cd >> start menu, it would save some newbies aggravation >> I was actually surprised that it was not included already when I got my >> dapper cd's in the mail that it was NOT an option! > > The biggest problem is that the text installer uses packages, and > installs from sets of packages to the hard drive. Very similar to > booting into single user mode, and then using apt-get to install > *everything*. The Live CD does not contain packages in the same sense. > The packages are already installed onto a compressed file system, and > the installer just copies files from one file system to another during > install. In order to have both on one disk, you would need to use > double the disk space, because all the packages would be on the CD > twice, once in the Live file system, and once in the apt repository. > > Later in the thread, doing a DVD was brought up, but I believe that the > same argument that is being used on claws applies - Who will step up to > create and maintain said feature? This is not something that should > just be foisted off onto the core devs, and I don't think it is in > (K)Ubuntu. I believe that the DVDs are created by others who want that > functionality. > > -Matt What about a general dvd full with deb packages that are updated regularly like once a month. This dvd can be used by all the ubuntu distro's. This will remove the problem of downloading all the packages. Also you can easily make a system that the install cd installs the basics app's and the rest comes from the dvd.
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