On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:12:47PM -0400, Cory Burgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having so many ISOs is confusing and uses up too much unnecessary space. It > would be trivial for someone to just download CD1 and the individual > packages they needed to make custom package CDs for offline installation. > Really, most users will only want/need the DVD or CD1/CD2 (or netinstall of > course). From there, they can torch their own package CDs if they need > them.
http://frugalware.org/docs/install#_choosing_installation_flavor we link this part of the documentation in each release announcement. is it really confusing once one read it over? > As an alternative to hosting all the ISOs (and thereby duplicating the > hosted packages), why not do something like Debian's jigdo? Just a thought > :) that's already done, it's called 'mkiso' and it's installed by default on all Frugalware systems ;) if we really want to cut something down, i would propose to stop releasing cd images, just release netinstall/dvd ones. this will hurt anybody who has only cd writer and no dvd writer + no direct internet connection. i have no idea what percentage of users are affected. (of course then it would be nice to prepare users for this, like: mention that the next stable release won't come with cd images in the 0.9 announcement then release 0.9+1 without cd images.)
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