On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:08am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:42 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote:
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 08:36am, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Naoki (naoki@valuecommerce.com) said:
DVDs are a pain, they are cumbersome and too small to fit a full OS
... then perhaps that the OS is so big is the problem. :)
More seriously...
So would it not make sense to have an "everything" ISO for use on removable USB devices?
*Shrug*. Wouldn't really make sense for it to be an ISO, from a raw FS standpoint. You could have a torrent that just makes a directory, even.
ISOs are convenient from a distribution standpoint just to ensure that things were downloaded correctly[1]. I can see how spending some time to make the "install from a USB device" a little bit easier could definitely have advantages.
Agree. But perhaps it's not an ISO, but just a "usb-disk.cpio" that's 8GB+ (whatever) in size. That could be downloaded and extracted to wherever, be it a USB disk or a file server (NFS, etc.).
We support having the ISO being accessed over NFS. And you can loopback mount for HTTP/FTP. In the interest of our mirrors not hunting me down and killing me, I'd prefer to have as few different copies of the "same" bits as possible :-)
Very good point.
So, I'll just keep using the full os/ + updates repo. I think that's the best solution for both network and hard drive installs when people want the full distribution.