On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:08am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:42 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 08:36am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Naoki (naoki(a)valuecommerce.com) said:
> > > > DVDs are a pain, they are cumbersome and too small to fit a full OS
> > >
> > > ... then perhaps that the OS is so big is the problem. :)
> > >
> > > More seriously...
> > >
> > > > So would it not make sense to have an "everything" ISO for
use on
> > > > removable USB devices?
> > >
> > > *Shrug*. Wouldn't really make sense for it to be an ISO, from a
> > > raw FS standpoint. You could have a torrent that just makes
> > > a directory, even.
> >
> > ISOs are convenient from a distribution standpoint just to ensure that
> > things were downloaded correctly[1]. I can see how spending some time
> > to make the "install from a USB device" a little bit easier could
> > definitely have advantages.
>
> Agree. But perhaps it's not an ISO, but just a "usb-disk.cpio"
that's
> 8GB+ (whatever) in size. That could be downloaded and extracted to
> wherever, be it a USB disk or a file server (NFS, etc.).
We support having the ISO being accessed over NFS. And you can loopback
mount for HTTP/FTP. In the interest of our mirrors not hunting me down
and killing me, I'd prefer to have as few different copies of the "same"
bits as possible :-)
Very good point.
So, I'll just keep using the full os/ + updates repo. I think that's the best
solution for both network and hard drive installs when people want the full
distribution.
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