partitioning FC into smaller parts

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sat Mar 13 11:04:24 UTC 2004


  are there any plans to partition FC into smaller parts to keep a base
distro from getting any bigger?  i was a little nonplussed to notice that
the current release doesn't fit on 3 CDs, since it overflows just a bit
onto a 4th CD.  

  i know this topic has come up before, but i don't know what became of 
the discussion.  since the install procedure specifically asks whether the 
user has extra CDs late in the process, it seems this would be the perfect 
place to create that extra CD of non-essential stuff.

  as a suggestion, that extra CD could contain stuff like games and 
multimedia stuff, collectively grouped under, say, "recreation" or 
"entertainment". 

  thoughts?  obviously, you wouldn't want to do this kind of partitioning 
for every logical grouping of software, but it sure seems like you could 
identify a few hundred megabytes of what's considered non-essential, kind 
of frivolous stuff that fits in the category of "fun stuff".

rday





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