On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org> wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Andrew Green wrote: >> >> Advantages >> -Only build and maintain one cd. >> -Saves space on server(not having to build and save 2 discs) >> -No confusion about what cd someone installed from. > > There is no (easy) way to install ReactOS without using bootcd, so it's > really the only option. I'm not sure what you mean. My plan is still to have the text based install, aswell as livecd. all the bootcd has at the moment is the text based installer and install files in a cab.
> >> -Simple to implement as opposed to a ram disk. to install everything >> to from a cab. >> >> Disadvantages >> -To download an iso to just install will be larger(A compressed >> version could counter this. Though it's not ideal) > > Even additional 10Mb would become 100Mb when regress testing just 10 > revisions. There are many people (myself included) who don't have high-speed > connection all the time too. If you download from http://iso.reactos.org/ it is stored as a 7z file. You will notice the livecd is smaller than the bootcd. In-fact by roughly 10mb smaller. So by your logic you would prefer my solution. Though for users they would probably prefer a raw iso. Though they also wouldn't be downloading 10 a day. I don't know if the build time is talking about the merging of discs. There shouldn't be any added build time. for one you save time because you do not have to compress the files into a cab. You would also save time because you wouldn't have to build 2 types of discs. Though these are not really build times. It's just moving the already built files into directories and then turning them into an iso. Though if it's about building the livecd installer application. you already build an unfinished version of it. I would really like some feedback soon because this will be my google summer of code proposal.(well part of it anyway) _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
