On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Martin Bochnig<martin at martux.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: [...] >> ? In addition a LiveDVD does not automatically imply ability of >> package selection. >> ? A live image is the image of an installed system and is transferred >> to hdd as is. >> ? So a live DVD image will be a much bigger install probably to the >> tune of a 10GB >> ? OS image. One can of course "remove" packages after the transfer >> but that is a >> ? waste. One cannot selectively transfer packages from a live image. >> ? It is also possible to put the liveCD image on the DVD and also bundle in >> an >> ? offline repository but then again, you may choose not to install all >> packages >> ? therein. Then what is the point of downloading stuff you may not >> need. Download >> ? only additional stuff that you need directly from the package repo, >> when you need >> ? it. That brings us back to the liveCD approach. >> >> Regards, >> Moinak. >> -- >> ================================ >> http://www.belenix.org/ >> http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > > > Moinak: It is well possible, as I explained 2 months ago. > Just put exactly the LiveCD stuff onto a DVD medium. > But change the install method aways from copying over a huge > monolithic "live" image to a pkg based installation. > > Then different install cluster can be offered once again, like in the old > times. > No big deal, conceptually. I think Sun's engineers could implement a > test release in a few days. A single person might need 2 weeks.
I mean (LiveCD + Disk-Repo) --->> New LiveDVD. With pkg based installer. :) Martin
