CD and DVD ISO images
Ed Landaveri
ed7tux at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 22 03:21:40 UTC 2008
If your computer has no DVD drive and you need to do
an installation, do a FTP or NFS install. It'll be
faster & cleaner.
--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Cheers
> > John
> >
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>
> Excellent Idea!!! This has to go to the Fedora
> Packagers/Developers and hope that they can
> implement
> it. It would benefit many that want the cake and
> eat
> it too. Kill more birds with one stone only. The
> documentation still needs to be specific as to how
> to
> take the DVD image and make it into CD sized isos.
> But this is needed only if they (developers) decide
> to
> go through with this idea.
>
> +1 :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
>
>
>
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