I really like the idea of having the choice to install "thin" software! It's great to have the whole massive thing, but it's elegant to have the choice to go for a slice of it without needing to know how to do the slicing yourself. That's what we want I think, for more people to be able to use this good stuff.
David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SI Reasoning Sent: December 15, 2001 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Proposal for distribution of images This also could be a great way to build thin clients. It would be nice to pop in a floppy in a gutted machine with 32 meg ram and get enough base install plus X to run a thin client. I was a bit frustrated when I tried to do a net install and the mandrake install just told me I could not do it because not enough ram. grrrrrr on ebay you can pick up some great laptop thin clients with 14" monitors for around $2-300. --- Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, > > Reading a lot of dramatic stories of people on 56k > modems downloading > the iso images. After days of downloading they have > nothing but a > broken image. And they were so enthousiatic by all > the good news on > the site. > > Now my proposal. It is 2-fold. > > 1) lets make a mini-install-image that installs > nothing else but base. > > After the install you can install any other package > with urpmi. Done > this with a friend and ... I liked it that way. > > 2) Lets use the usenet cd-image distribution way ( > on ftp of course ) > > * Split the image in multiple rar archives. > * Add a few parity archives with them. > http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/parchive-1.1-1mdk.src.rpm > > This is a very tested way to move tons of data over > unreliable lines. > > > Cya, Han. > ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
