2007/8/7, Abraham Tehrani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Must we limit ourselves to a CD? DVD drives are pretty ubiquitous and I can > see value in having the distro on DVD. Belenix had a DVD distro before.
I find that DVDs take too much time to download and undermine the idea being live CDs: trying out things quickly. For installation, having DVDs makes sense, but for demoing, having anything over 700 MB is overkill, I think. didier > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanjay > Nadkarni > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:58 PM > To: Glynn Foster > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contentsfor slim > install] > > Glynn Foster wrote: > > Mark Phalan wrote: > > > >> I think that its really important that the live cd is a true subset > >> of what a user would get from a full indiana (or solaris next as the > >> case may be) install. From a usability perspective the closer to the > >> finally installed bits the better - including default settings etc. > >> I'd be strongly against delivering a gnu userland if that wasn't the > >> default when the bits are finally committed to disk. > >> > > > > Absolutely agree - very essential I believe. > > > > (FWIW, it would be good to consolidate the discussion - right now we > > seem to have separate threads going on separate lists) > > > Agreed! Let's keep this on caiman-discuss. I wanted to make sure that > people on indiana discuss had an opportunity to express their thoughts. > One thing to note is of course space on the CD is limited !! > > -Sanjay > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
