On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:42 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 08:36am, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Naoki (naoki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > DVDs are a pain, they are cumbersome and too small to fit a full OS > > > > > > ... then perhaps that the OS is so big is the problem. :) > > > > > > More seriously... > > > > > > > So would it not make sense to have an "everything" ISO for use on > > > > removable USB devices? > > > > > > *Shrug*. Wouldn't really make sense for it to be an ISO, from a > > > raw FS standpoint. You could have a torrent that just makes > > > a directory, even. > > > > ISOs are convenient from a distribution standpoint just to ensure that > > things were downloaded correctly[1]. I can see how spending some time > > to make the "install from a USB device" a little bit easier could > > definitely have advantages. > > Agree. But perhaps it's not an ISO, but just a "usb-disk.cpio" that's 8GB+ > (whatever) in size. That could be downloaded and extracted to wherever, be > it a USB disk or a file server (NFS, etc.). We support having the ISO being accessed over NFS. And you can loopback mount for HTTP/FTP. In the interest of our mirrors not hunting me down and killing me, I'd prefer to have as few different copies of the "same" bits as possible :-) Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
