On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:08, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:26:48PM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: > > > > Also: "Minimal installations currently require more than a single CD." > > > > Seems like a bug to me. Why not arrange them such that the most commonly > > used and smallest installs be on the first disc, then the second, and > > the third being for the least often installed options? > > This is what Red Hat did for the last few releases. I believe 8.0 (or > is it 7.3) shipped without a i585 kernel because there wasn't enough > space on the first CD to include (this was fixed in errata since there's > no space limit there). I suspect it became impossible to fit the base > install on the first CD.
Maybe, but I think it is just amatter of not planning on it. The "minimum" install is ~450MB. Surely that can be fit on one CD? :^) SuSE has a similar problem last I knew. To do a base installation required a little bit from each and every damned disc. Then again, maybe "base" needs to be trimmed down anyway. I expect the "personal desktop" could indeed fit on one disc, if the rest of it was moved to the secondary and tertiary discs. If memory serves, RPMs do *some* compression; 2:1 shouldn't be that hard to do. That'd put the "workstation" in range of a single disc. > > > Or is this just to make people have to DL the whole set and thus be > > more likely to buy iy? ;) > > You wouldn't happen to be an X-Files fan, would you? :-) Not too much. A bit yes, but it got real old with all the evidence conveniently disappearing at the end of every damned episode. :( -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
