Andrei Popescu wrote:
Sorry Neil, I meant to send it to the list.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:12:31 +1100
Neil Dugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it would be a good idea to order the different install methods
by how many iso files needed (i.e. net install first).
Another thing that might be handy is to have a web form with the major
packages on it that you can tick off to get a list of iso files needed
to install those packages.
Regards Neil.
Thinking more about this I think my personal wishlist/vision would be something
like this:
CD1: Live/Rescue/Base system
CD-Desktop-Base
CD-Desktop-Office
CD-Desktop-Multimedia
...
CD-Server-Web
CD-Server-Mail
CD-Server-SQL
...
CD-Developer-Web
CD-Developer-Programming
...
CD-Scientific-Math
...
Andrei
I think this is an excellent strategy - especially the base install
doubling as a live CD.
What would happen to packages like Apache and Exim? You might expect to
find them in more than one CD eg Base, Web, Mail etc.
Would you end up with a lot more CDs because the packages do not
completely fill a particular CD? Perhaps you could get around this by
making your list a list of sections rather than CDs. Then you could have
the sections spanning CDs in order to fill the space. You would put the
sections in the order you suggest so that desktop users would only need
the first few CDs. This would be equivalent to the idea of "Debian
Lite". Sysadmins or developers probably have such fat internet
connections that downloading a larger number of CDs or installing via
HTTP/FTP is not an inconvenience.
Chris.
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