Op 30-10-13 23:09, Steve McIntyre schreef: >> Having said that, I do think that providing a limited number of CD >> install images is useful for those cases of retrocomputing where >> installing off DVD is difficult. Other than that... > > So... In that situation, would you care about having more than just a > netinst available for initial booting? Beyond that, people can get on > the network to a mirror, or to other machines hosting the DVD images. > > I'm thinking we can cut down some more here. Maybe (as Steven > suggested) we could keep a single bigger CD image around, but I'm not > 100% convinced that it's likely to give us enough beyond the netinst > to make me care about it. What else would we want/need on a CD to make > it compelling here?
I think having a live-CD (if that is at all possible) might be useful for those cases where you have an old system without DVD that doesn't boot anymore. This doesn't need a full desktop environment, just a shell with some utilities should do. I don't think you'd necessarily need more than the netinst CD for installation, either; but then, if you're going to write a CD image anyway, why not write the full one rather than waste a CD to half an image -- so I think having one 650MB image might be useful; I would suggest adding packages that have a high popcon rating, without necessarily trying to fit any kind of desktop environment on there. As an aside, it might be sensible to add a link to the two netboot "mini.iso" images which are found in the d-i FTP area for people to use, too; these contain just the booloader plus its configuration, a kernel and an initrd, and downloads everything else off the net. It is therefore even smaller than the netboot one (on amd64/sid currently 23M for the plain one, 30M for the GTK one), and is what I commonly use when I need an installer medium and PXE won't work. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/527222c8.6080...@debian.org
