CD and DVD ISO images

[John Summerfield]

The latest Fedora newsletter triggered this. Someone was asking about 
CD-sized ISO images.

For some time I've wondered whether it might be a Good Thing for distros 
to create a bunch of CD-sized ISO images, and then for the DVD-sized ISO 
image simply glue the lot into a single ISO image that boots the 
installer and installs as usual. I don't see much point to making 
different-sized install media that are so different.

Anaconda already has to logic to loop-mount ISO images, it just needs to 
be applied to the "CDROM" install path.

There would be space advantages to all who host the distro; they'd 
simply host the DVD images.

Users who want the CD images would download the DVD image, loop mount it 
on Linux or OS X (I think there's brand-X software for Windows too) and 
then extract the ISO images to burn or not.

I'm assuming nobody (Debian users excepted) downloads less than a full 
set of images.

Most, but not all, of my too-numerous computers have DVD drives, and 
right now I'm looking at installing something that I downloaded as a DVD 
image on a system that hasn't a DVD drive.

What do others think?







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John

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