for me sounds a good idea On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was thinking and thought id get an idea out there. > > rather than ship 2 dvds one for i386 and one for x86_64 we would ship one dvd > that has the package set for both arches. they would likely only have the > packages for a desktop install on them we would need to have both arches under > 2.4GiB, you could choose your own adventure by enabling the everything repo. > > this way you could carry a usb key or dvd that you can plug into any intel > based machine and be sure of having it installable. this would end the > discussions of what arch to promote we have a single install media. > > syslinux would need to be able to detect the arch to install and likely also > have a flag to force 32 bit we could easily implement the 64 bit kernel and 32 > bit userland idea that was put forward a few releases ago. pungi will need to > learn how to make the new iso. but i think it is achievable. > > I think we should also push the netinstall.iso along with kickstarting > machines. we could make a single netinstall.iso for both arches as well. it > would make it ~375MB iso. > > Dennis > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto e-mail/msn/google talk/sip: itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx skype: itamarjp icq: 81053601 +55 11 4063 5033 +55 34 3221 8599 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
