Re: Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later?

On 10/19/05, Chris Gianelloni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 15:41 -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> > Why not replace the minimal livecd too? Just add an option to do
> > graphical or "expert" install when you boot the livecd. That would
> > help you guys not have to generate so many CD images plus you get the
> > best of both worlds. Pretty much the only thing you would do is dump
> > people into a terminal instead of starting X for an expert install,
> > all the tools would still be there. Anyhow... just my $0.02
>
> The graphical install is started manually, anyway. You can also boot
> the CD with "nox" to get to a terminal. The reason for the minimal CD
> is simple, size. If you don't plan on doing anything but a stage1
> installation, a minimal CD + stage1 tarball is a lot less to download
> than a 700MB ISO image. Basically, you've suggested a capability the CD
> can already do. ;]
>

Yeah... good point... downloading 6GB of isos is for Fedora weenies. Guess I
have kinda grown to taking that small minimal cd download size for granted.
My next question would be then, why change anything on the minimal cd? Why
mess with perfection; or are we going for the smallest iso of any distro out
there? ;-)

-Mike

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