On May 24, 2004, "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Surely we could fit a lot of functionality on a single CD. Just the > basic utilities, X, GNOME and a few other things. Just enough to get up > and running. As in, make the installer one of the applications of a Fedora Core Live CD? First thing it does is to copy the contents of its root filesystem to the chosen root filesystem (should be faster than `rpm'ing around lots and lots of packages, and saves CD space!), then enables the user to select additional packages to install/remove. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
