On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:56:40PM +0000, Jon Atkinson wrote:
I think that it's not so much the size of the distribution (the more software that is 'distribution certified' [included] the better, right?), but the way that software is arranged on the disc images. It would be nice to see the base system, kernel, X and gnome on the first disc, with KDE, OpenOffice etc on disc 2, other software on disc 3.
This would be a good idea.
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It would be nice, when Fedora has matured a little (FC3/4?) to see a higher level of support and promotion of the FTP install feature. I know anaconda does support FTP installs, but there is very little in the way of (obvious) documentation of this feature, and from what I've heard and personal experience it is a little flaky. I am an ex-Debian user and I liked the way I could burn a 50mb ISO and run the installer then fetch packages from a local mirror. I know not everyone has DSL access, but a large and growing number of people do, and I think it may soon be time to rethink the ISO distribution model.
I'd really like to hear what everyone thinks about this, it's been bugging me for a while now :-)
FWIW:
I've found no inconvenience with the current installation procedure. I just finished upgrading a lab of about 10 machines to FC1; I installed from images on disk. It wasn't messy like a CD installation. Very fast, smooth and painless. I like the fact that I don't need to make any choices. I would prefer to download the whole thing at once rather than having a 2 stage bootstrapping procedure.
Cheers, Arvind