The minimal install is a viable option. So is an "everything" install. Each has advantages and disadvantages, as I see it. Nothing prevents anyone from writing the documentation you're suggesting. Steve Dawes writes: > Chuck, > > It isn't quite that bad. Your type'o has suggested that a full install is 14 > cds. I think you meant to say 4 cds. If you install all source in addition > to all the binaries, you end up with 7 or 8 cds or 2 dvds. > > The problem I have with the selecting everything, or doing the full install, > is that it is the easy way out. Yes it works, but it installs a lot of > unnecessary stuff and uses up a lot of resources. A good case in point is > that it installs both kde and gnome. > Additionally, it doesn't install absolutely everything as it implies, it > installs almost everything on the binary disks and you need to install the > source separately if you wish to. This approach also does nothing in > teaching how to set up a system with only the packages you need and want. > > If you are only going to be using console based programs, there is no need > to install any of the kde or gnome packages. It is incredible how much space > can be saved when you take this approach. > > Now I am not knocking the installation howto that Janina has written. I am > saying that what it does is a quick and easy install that gets the first > time user up-and-running on Linux. What I would like to see however, is > something that tells the user where they can find out more information on > how to trim down their installation to only the packages they are going to > use included in the howto. A simple reference to the Linux document page > does nothing to direct a new or novice user to good information about > creating a smaller or tidier installation. > > > > Steve > > Steve Dawes > Calgary Canada. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
