On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Glenn Lagasse <Glenn.Lagasse at sun.com> wrote: > * Dave Miner (dminer at opensolaris.org) wrote: >> >> Personally, I don't get the enthusiasm that's been expressed for >> supporting this particular installation mode. ?I tend to believe that >> it's due to habit of long-time Solaris users who haven't had network >> package repo's; it was less inconvenient to have a pile of extra, mostly >> useless bits lying around and adding overhead to upgrades than to have >> to hunt up a DVD in the event that some of those bits were needed later >> on. ?I'd never want to do this with any Linux distro, either (and >> didn't, when I was using them a lot). > > That echoes my sentiments precisely (even the part about not doing this > on any Linux distro) for whatever it's worth. > > Cheers, > > -- > Glenn
Hey Glenn, Dave, all, just as a proof that this type of "covenience1st" user exists: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/015550.html He was even that much convenient, that he asked this question on indiana-discuss, rather than here (despite my indiana-discuss cross-posting of yesterday). IMO he represents the *majority* of casual users out there. Here my follow-up reply: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/015553.html . It doesn't need to be a LiveDVD with much more Live-available apps or functionality (due to the poor I/O). What many users are looking for is simply a legacy install-DVD (maybe now incorporated into a slim LiveDVD functionality). Such as ((existing LiveCD put on DVD) + (IPS-Loopback-Repo-on-DVD)). Maybe perform a survey at distrowatch if somebody underestimates the significance of such a DVD. Not everybody in the world has 24x7x365 highly reliable low-cost broadband bandwith like we do. My (nowadays pretty worthless fiat-currency) +1.0USD for that matter. Martin
