[ oops, sent from wrong email addr last time ] Daryll Strauss wrote: > > What if we break the distribution in to more CD's each with fewer > packages more tightly organized around usage. For a made up example: > CD1 & CD2 - Base OS (practically everyone uses) > CD3 - Core Server packages > CD4 - Core Dekstop packages > CD5 - Additional Server packages > CD6 - Additional Desktop packages > CD7 - Really bizarre packages (anything else we include for some reason) Eh, I think that means I'd always have to download at least 6 CDs, because chances are gnome, httpd, and xemacs will be on different discs, so it seems (selfishly) like no gain. What I generally do is install the absolutely minimal fedora I can, and then install the rest after the machine has booted. This is good because it gets me past the part I might actually have to fuck around with (partitioning, debugging boot loader problems) right away, and then most importantly, *gets me a network* while things are installing, so I'm not sitting there bored out of my mind while it grinds away: Anaconda doesn't let me ssh out to check my mail. Also it means I don't end up installing 80% of the packages twice (the version on the CD, and then the upgrade from yum.) I know that the installer currently does that two-stage thing where firstboot (or whatever) asks you to install additional packages after the machine is on the net with a desktop. I'd like to see stage 1 get a lot smaller, and almost everything go into stage 2. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/
