On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:23 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:04 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:49:23PM -0500, Gene C. wrote: > > > 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. > > Yeah, network install from a local mirror is definitely the way. With > CDs there's just no way to avoid the scenario where we have you swap > discs up front to read repodata, and then wind up going through all of > them *again* during the actual install. > > It should be doable, of course, but it'll be a painfully high level of > user interaction for an install. Whereas with a local mirror, you can > do network install pretty easily. > > It's not yet clear exactly which of these features will land in FC5 and > which will take longer, but this is the route everybody has agreed we're > headed in. > > -- > Peter > Something that would be really cool to go along with a local mirror is to be able to run the installer from a CD but point to a locally mounted USB hard disk or something. This may be too complicated compared to a local repo but it would sure be nice. :) Joe
