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. At the same time, I don't think that the areas for which DVDs are a problem will be better off with large USB storage devices.
Jeremy
[1] Also, for ensuring that people don't delete things because "I don't need that" then leading to install problems. Not that such a thing ever happened with hd tree installs :-)