Reduce "Core" to 1 Binary CD? -- WAS: Request for Packages in Fedora Core 3

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon May 24 13:46:25 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> said:
> I'd really like to see us get to the stage where an install just
> installs a bare-bones system[1], and after booting, firstboot runs
> system-config-packages to pull in anything else we desire.
> Moving the bulk of the package selection out of the installer.
> I think I recall Jeremy being quite enthusiastic about this too
> at various points in time, so who knows.. it could happen 8)

If we get to that point, we will need CD/DVD images of Extras as well.
Not everyone has a high-speed link, at least when they are installing.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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