On 31/10/13 09:30, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op 30-10-13 23:09, Steve McIntyre schreef: >> 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.
I would like a CD with as much of Required, Important and Standard and as many other popular packages as will fit. Whether installing or upgrading it's useful to be able to download a reasonable amount in advance, especially if you're doing more than one machine or on a slow link. It would also be useful able to install a minimal working system without needing network access, or is this what the netinst provides anyway? I've generally used CD1 for this in the past. Roger -- 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/d0raka-1n5....@silverstone.rilynn.me.uk
