Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 13:54:10 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:59 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 19:52 +0200, Stefan Hartsuiker wrote:
> > I know and that was not the reason for my confusion :)
> > What I understood from Till's first sentence above, is that he would like a
> > dvd that has a bootloader that can use the enclosed cd iso's as an
> > installation source. This then would imply that it only works if the system
> > can actually already boot from the dvd? Therefore it seems to me a bit
> > pointless.
> 
> Fedora would distribute one piece of media.  You would either boot from
> it and install, or you would mount it (loop back) and burn the CD sized
> isos held within, to boot from those and install from them.

You can't (easily) loopback mount on other OS's which would make burning
the CD images a lot harder for people if they were only embedded within
the DVD image.

Jeremy




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