On Sun 19 Jul 2020 at 16:25:31 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only produce > >> netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's a different-ish > >> project). Drop the DVD images. > > An alternative is to have "virtual ISO images", i.e. images which are > constructed on the fly (presumably by jigdo) on the web-server side. > > > Though this doesn't apply to me, I can imagine a fair few people in the > > world who don't have access to fast, cheap internet who would > > appreciate a DVD image that they can simply download somewhere where > > they can get good internet. e.g. library, work, education > > establishment. Or could get someone else to do that and mail it. > > I'm not sure why the discussion is always around DVD images. > Would you be equally happy with an image only for a USB flash drive, or > is it important for it to be an image for optical media? > > I always found optical media very unappealing, even back when its > capacity and price were strongly in its favor. Nowadays, I'm having > a hard time imagining a circumstance when it would be a good choice.
There is a generation of machines that can boot from optical media but not USB sticks. (I have one.) But even in that case, there's no need to burn anything more than a netinst CD for booting from. The installed system can then be extended with packages from USBs or self-made optical media. Cheers, David.
