[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

[Nicu Buculei]

On 11/24/2009 09:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> I was thinking and thought id get an idea out there.
>
> rather than ship 2 dvds one for i386 and one for x86_64  we would ship one dvd
> that has the package set for both arches.  they would likely only have the
> packages for a desktop install on them we would need to have both arches under
> 2.4GiB, you could choose your own adventure by enabling the everything repo.
>
> this way you could carry a usb key or dvd that you can plug into any intel
> based machine and be sure of having it installable. this would end the
> discussions of what arch to promote we have a single install media.

Instead of this I would pretty much like to have the normal install DVD 
being full (>4GB, instead of 3.0-3.3GB as now), so when installing a 
computer I have more content on local media and less stuff to get from 
online sources, resulting in a shorter time until the computer is fully 
usable.

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