One installation CD

[K. Richard Pixley]

Martín Marqués wrote:

>How hard would it be to have an extra CD image with the distro that will only 
>have the necesarry things to start the installation, partition, run fdisk, 
>pass throught all the installation configuration, and when the packages are 
>needed, just download them from the net.
>  
>
Check out freebsd.  It uses almost exactly this approach.  Base os fits 
on a minidisk.  Everything else is installed by downloading source and 
building it and installing it on your machine.  This is also their 
answer to up2date, essentially.

--rich