Smart packages

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Jul 22 17:21:15 UTC 2007


On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:56:55 -0600,
  Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>
> >>    Thinking about Ferdora 7 and 8 it appears when 8 is made available 
> >>we will need to download another DVD full of software. I want to talk 
> >>about a better way. Why must a person building a server get 4.7 GB of 
> >>software when he wants just 750 MBytes of it?
> >
> >There is no need to do. There is a network boot option with boot.iso 
> >image and there are Live images, both GNOME and KDE spins for x86 is 
> >around the size you want.
> >
> >Rahul
> >
> 	As usual Rahul you didn't read what I wrote. You just throw out 
> 	things that have zero to do with concept.

Rahul seemed to provide reasonable suggestions for the problems you are
asking about. Doing a network install solves the issue of downloading
stuff you don't need. Fedora has Live CD versions that you were asking about.




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