On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:49:23PM -0500, Gene C. wrote: > Thanks, that provides some info but I suspect that a lot of words were > spoken which added a lot more info. Yeah; hopefully the video feed will be up soon. > I believe I understand how this will (could) all work for an Internet > connected system where, basically, you do a network install for a lot of > that packages (especially those in Fedora Extras). However, how about the > unconnected system? What is the thinking on how it will handle installing > everything from CD or DVD images? Will there be CD and/or DVD iso images > for Extras or will we need to roll our own? I'm hoping for the multiple-extras-flavors (Extras:Java / Extras:Games / Extras:Whatever), which could each have CDs. But I think that network install is going to be more and more the way. > Even for Internet connected systems, if you have a number of systems to do > installs on, you do not want to have to download the packages for each > system ... you (or at least I) want to download the packages once and then > do installs on all of the systems. Caching proxy. :) Or, make your own local mirror. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
