Andrei Popescu wrote:
I think this is an excellent strategy - especially the base install doubling as a live CD.Sorry Neil, I meant to send it to the list. On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:12:31 +1100 Neil Dugan <debian@butterflystitches.com.au> wrote:I think it would be a good idea to order the different install methods by how many iso files needed (i.e. net install first).Another thing that might be handy is to have a web form with the major packages on it that you can tick off to get a list of iso files needed to install those packages.Regards Neil.Thinking more about this I think my personal wishlist/vision would be something like this: CD1: Live/Rescue/Base system CD-Desktop-Base CD-Desktop-Office CD-Desktop-Multimedia ... CD-Server-Web CD-Server-Mail CD-Server-SQL ... CD-Developer-Web CD-Developer-Programming ... CD-Scientific-Math ... Andrei
What would happen to packages like Apache and Exim? You might expect to find them in more than one CD eg Base, Web, Mail etc.
Would you end up with a lot more CDs because the packages do not completely fill a particular CD? Perhaps you could get around this by making your list a list of sections rather than CDs. Then you could have the sections spanning CDs in order to fill the space. You would put the sections in the order you suggest so that desktop users would only need the first few CDs. This would be equivalent to the idea of "Debian Lite". Sysadmins or developers probably have such fat internet connections that downloading a larger number of CDs or installing via HTTP/FTP is not an inconvenience.
Chris.