Do we need split media CDs for F12?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jun 18 02:48:23 UTC 2009


Jeroen van Meeuwen (kanarip at kanarip.com) said: 
> >> > Something else not terribly unreasonable, instead of split CD media, a
> >> > single CD offered that is netinst.iso plus the contents of @core and
> >> > @base if it'll fit on a CD.  Then they can do whatever custom install
> >> > they want, and add packages after install, either from a DVD media or
> >> > from a local mirror, or from the Internet.
> >> 
> >> That's exactly what Fedora Unity is about to release for Fedora 11.
> > 
> > Any particular reason why this is (or isn't) a spin?
> > 
> 
> No particular reason with a traceable track record, but I've understood
> that anything that is not composed with pungi or livecd-tools will be
> blocked as they are the blessed and preferred tools for the job(s).

This doesn't sound like it's impossible to work in that scenario, though.
(Heck, I'd argue that it's a better target than the Fedora DVD, but I
may be alone in that opinion.)

Bill




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