Fedora 7 media sets

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 21:36 +0000, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> O/H Jeremy Katz έγραψε:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:01 +0000, Dimitrios Glezos wrote:
> >> Also, I suggest to also ship a *Minimal* spin. For the users who have aDSL
> >> (which are probably most of our users), downloading the needed packages via
> >> Anaconda is probably quicker than downloading a whole DVD (besides, burning a CD
> >> is cheaper than a DVD). I usually download only one CD (which I write on a CDRW)
> >> to do the install, so it would be nice if that iso was 100 instead of 600MB.
> >> Besides, now that Anaconda has "Extras" support, more users would actually make
> >> use of this Minimal spin, since it doesn't reflect to "minimal installation" but
> >> more to "minimal download size".
> > 
> > How is this different from the rescue CD which we have today (and will
> > continue to have)?
> 
> Glad to hear that we already have the infrastructure/plans for it, Jeremy.
> 
> I didn't know that the rescueCD was installable. This sounds like a marketing
> mistake of ours: if a contributor didn't know about it, imagine the rest of the
> world. So maybe it would be better to dub it "Fedora minimal/rescue spin" and
> start listing it as one of the media we ship.

Yeah, I was already thinking with the syslinux menu stuff that we should
make it more obvious.  I definitely agree that it's something that
could/should be advertised better.

Jeremy