CD and DVD ISO images
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Jan 21 12:25:08 UTC 2008
The latest Fedora newsletter triggered this. Someone was asking about
CD-sized ISO images.
For some time I've wondered whether it might be a Good Thing for distros
to create a bunch of CD-sized ISO images, and then for the DVD-sized ISO
image simply glue the lot into a single ISO image that boots the
installer and installs as usual. I don't see much point to making
different-sized install media that are so different.
Anaconda already has to logic to loop-mount ISO images, it just needs to
be applied to the "CDROM" install path.
There would be space advantages to all who host the distro; they'd
simply host the DVD images.
Users who want the CD images would download the DVD image, loop mount it
on Linux or OS X (I think there's brand-X software for Windows too) and
then extract the ISO images to burn or not.
I'm assuming nobody (Debian users excepted) downloads less than a full
set of images.
Most, but not all, of my too-numerous computers have DVD drives, and
right now I'm looking at installing something that I downloaded as a DVD
image on a system that hasn't a DVD drive.
What do others think?
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John
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