Re: Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size

[Arvind Narayanan <arvindn meenakshi cs iitm ernet in>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:56:40PM +0000, Jon Atkinson wrote:
> I think that it's not so much the size of the distribution (the more 
> software that is 'distribution certified' [included] the better, 
> right?), but the way that software is arranged on the disc images. It 
> would be nice to see the base system, kernel, X and gnome on the first 
> disc, with KDE, OpenOffice etc on disc 2, other software on disc 3.
This would be a good idea.
> 
[snip] 
> It would be nice, when Fedora has matured a little (FC3/4?) to see a 
> higher level of support and promotion of the FTP install feature. I know 
> anaconda does support FTP installs, but there is very little in the way 
> of (obvious) documentation of this feature, and from what I've heard and 
> personal experience it is a little flaky. I am an ex-Debian user and I 
> liked the way I could burn a 50mb ISO and run the installer then fetch 
> packages from a local mirror. I know not everyone has DSL access, but a 
> large and growing number of people do, and I think it may soon be time 
> to rethink the ISO distribution model.
> 
> I'd really like to hear what everyone thinks about this, it's been 
> bugging me for a while now :-)
FWIW:

I've found no inconvenience with the current installation procedure.
I just finished upgrading a lab of about 10 machines to FC1; I
installed from images on disk. It wasn't messy like a CD installation.
Very fast, smooth and painless. I like the fact that I don't need
to make any choices. I would prefer to download the whole thing at
once rather than having a 2 stage bootstrapping procedure.

Cheers,
Arvind
-- 
Its all GNU to me