[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.
Casey Dahlin
cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 20:15:26 UTC 2009
On 11/24/2009 02:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> I was thinking and thought id get an idea out there.
>
> rather than ship 2 dvds one for i386 and one for x86_64 we would ship one dvd
> that has the package set for both arches. they would likely only have the
> packages for a desktop install on them we would need to have both arches under
> 2.4GiB, you could choose your own adventure by enabling the everything repo.
>
> this way you could carry a usb key or dvd that you can plug into any intel
> based machine and be sure of having it installable. this would end the
> discussions of what arch to promote we have a single install media.
>
> syslinux would need to be able to detect the arch to install and likely also
> have a flag to force 32 bit we could easily implement the 64 bit kernel and 32
> bit userland idea that was put forward a few releases ago. pungi will need to
> learn how to make the new iso. but i think it is achievable.
>
> I think we should also push the netinstall.iso along with kickstarting
> machines. we could make a single netinstall.iso for both arches as well. it
> would make it ~375MB iso.
>
> Dennis
>
I know there's still a lot of users who install on computers with no/unreliable internet access, and they're definitely worth going the extra mile to support given where that use case tends to pop up, but I still wonder if this is worthy to be "default" anymore. Shipping netinst.iso by default would be a good way to do what Dennis describes without all the pain of trying to squeeze the arches down.
--CJD
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