On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Bill Anderson wrote:
> 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.
Don't forget, there are kernels (UP and MP) and glibc for multiple
architectures that all have to be on the first disk if single-disk
installation on all platforms is to be supported. Also, the install
software, images, and some of the docs need to be there too. That's
probably close to 100MB right there, maybe more.
> 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.
Of course one man's base is another man's bloat. "Personal desktop" might
fit, but I want server stuff. "Server" might fit, but you want
"Workstation". That would be a fun new religious topic, instead of vi vs.
emacs or whatever...
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Matthew Saltzman
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