On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:34:43 -0400, "Paul W. Frields" stickster@gmail.com wrote:
To clarify, what I was talking about was the fact that the Installation DVD is really just a continuation of what has shipped since time immemorial in Red Hat Linux many years ago. It doesn't have any particular target. At the same time, our Live CDs are highly constrained by a combination of (1) the 700 MB limit, and (2) our desire -- a worthy one, IMHO -- to keep them usable in as many languages as possible.
Note that there are already Live DVDs and at least one (Games Spin) that is limited by the 4 GiB iso size so as to be downloadable on FAT systems.
There is also a good chance that Squashfs will support lzma compression by F13, which should be a noticeable help to spins up against their iso size limits.