Re: 2011.0 DVD

Dwight Paige <[email protected]> Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:00:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.expert
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/06/2011 07:00 PM, Jim Beard wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 06:59 PM, Dwight Paige wrote:
>> On 09/06/2011 05:08 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
>>> Anyone know where to find the .iso of a full 2011.0 install DVD ?
>>> (as opposed to the "live" DVD offered on the MDV site)
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Ron.
>> I'm not aware that it exists except with Mageia. And I personally
>> prefer the full [grown up?] DVD to the current liveDVD. The
>> current liveDVD is aimed at noobs and less technical users and
>> any who are made "afraid by to many choices". So we might have to
>> build it ourselves which I don't know how to do. Do you have any
>> thoughts as to where it would be best to ask for help with this?
>> Mageia? Fedora? Cooker ML?
>
> Not too long ago (maybe within a couple of months or so) there was a
> discussion on creating DVDs to install special-purpose versions of
> Mandriva, e.g. Gnome desktop (which Mandriva itself no longer supports
> directly). You might go to the forum archives on nabble and search.
>
> I found the complexity implicit in some of the stuff to be more than I
> was willing to dig into, much less try to use.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>
>
Thanks and I will look in to this. Knowledge wise I'm just a user so I 
would need help and need to learn a lot. And that's if it isn't over my 
  head to begin with. But I am googleing and thinking on it. Do have the 
40+ hour job to factor in as well...

Thanks,
Dwight Paige