Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-09 Thread alexander cox
Yes, i agree. The live CD can be hard or sometimes impossible to use for many computers, and upgrading can be considered a chore as you have to back up all your data and re-install applications, themes, splash-screens, login pages, etc and reconfigure your system. This is one way people may start

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread panshizhu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2007-01-07 23:31:18: > question: > how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text > installer to the live cd? > I've noticed a lot of ppl with issues that they get failure when > using live cd...it fails to run and they need to download and burn a > new cd

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread panshizhu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2007-01-09 11:42:31: > It would still run normally as a liveCD but it would have an option > to text install... but i think loading into RAM might not be a good > thing for old computers... but i can't think of anything else it > could do while extracted other than RAM as there

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread alexander cox
It would still run normally as a liveCD but it would have an option to text install... but i think loading into RAM might not be a good thing for old computers... but i can't think of anything else it could do while extracted other than RAM as there is nowhere else to extract it to. Please tell m

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'd guess that running packages in a live environment would be rather difficult. On 1/8/07, alexander cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "" > >The biggest problem is that the text installer uses packages, and >installs from sets of packages to the hard drive. Very similar to >booting into single u

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread alexander cox
"" The biggest problem is that the text installer uses packages, and installs from sets of packages to the hard drive. Very similar to booting into single user mode, and then using apt-get to install *everything*. The Live CD does not contain packages in the same sense. The packages are alread

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread john levin
Vincent wrote: > Don't Ubuntu and Kubuntu (and perhaps Edubuntu) also have DVD versions? > Just not standard? > Yes, Ubuntu has a DVD edition, available through amazon.com and from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/release/ Edubuntu, starting with Feisty, will also have a DVD edition: htt

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Jelle de Jong
Matthew Kuiken wrote: > Robert B. Lance Sr. wrote: >> question: >> how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text >> installer to the live cd? >> I've noticed a lot of ppl with issues that they get failure when using >> live cd...it fails to run and they need to download and

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Matthew Kuiken
Robert B. Lance Sr. wrote: > question: > how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text > installer to the live cd? > I've noticed a lot of ppl with issues that they get failure when using > live cd...it fails to run and they need to download and burn a new cd > for the alt

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Vincent
Don't Ubuntu and Kubuntu (and perhaps Edubuntu) also have DVD versions? Just not standard? On 1/7/07, János Illés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the other hand, i have seen lots of old pc with dvdrom and without high speed internet connection. On 1/7/07, Gauvain Pocentek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread János Illés
In the other hand, i have seen lots of old pc with dvdrom and without high speed internet connection. On 1/7/07, Gauvain Pocentek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent wrote: > > Didn't we have a lot of room left on the CD? If so, I'm all in favour > > of it > > as long as there is enough space. >

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Gauvain Pocentek
Vincent wrote: > Didn't we have a lot of room left on the CD? If so, I'm all in favour > of it > as long as there is enough space. > >> "Robert B. Lance Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > question: >> > how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text >> > installer to the

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Vincent
Didn't we have a lot of room left on the CD? If so, I'm all in favour of it as long as there is enough space. On 1/7/07, Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:31:18 -0500 "Robert B. Lance Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > question: > how hard (in terms of work and cd s

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Jelle de Jong
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:31:18 -0500 "Robert B. Lance Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > question: > how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text > installer to the live cd? I've noticed a lot of ppl with issues that > they get failure when using live cd...it fails to run and t

Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-07 Thread Robert B. Lance Sr.
question: how hard (in terms of work and cd space) would it be to add the text installer to the live cd? I've noticed a lot of ppl with issues that they get failure when using live cd...it fails to run and they need to download and burn a new cd for the alt install It seems to me that if we coul