On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:04, Austin Acton wrote: > Thanks for your support. > You have good ideas, but some of them won't fly. > > We NEED rpm to keep things uniform. Easy to upgrade, easy to replace, > (not-so)easy to build, and the same for every package. Seriously. If > there is ANYTHING that linux needs to survive it's a bit of > standardization (even WITHIN each distro). Having two package systems > could be a nightmare. > > Also, you CAN just download ISO1 and do the rest via ftp/http. I've > done it many times. You can even just download one floppy and install > everything by ftp! (Thanks to rpm...) > > It would be nice to have a "semi-network" install option on CD1 though. > You boot CD1, pick some sort of hybrid install with VERY few options and > menus and such. This installs basesystem, X, a window manager, and the > "draks" and lets you select a mirror, and CONFIGURES the mirror in urpmi > BEFORE rebooting. Then you reboot and install the rest from you new > super-speedy Mandrake system. > > Great idea. > > Austin >
I think the idea is something like http://www.virtual-linux.org/. Which is AFAIK just a standard and not so basic Mandrake installation which is tarred up from a harddisk installation and put on a cd and with some foo works. If you would untar it on a harddisk and removed the foo you couldn't tell the difference between it and a normal way of installing
