Re: Redesign of cdimage website
jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> writes:
> i think we all agree that an official mini install (bootable) iso image
> would be a Good Thing (tm). so the following questions
>
> o does it get produced for i386 only or for all architectures ?
I'd guess the people responsible for each port should make a decision
about how useful a mini-CD would be for them.
> o does it place an unreasonable burden on Phil Hands to be generating
> multiple sets of images within architectures for official releases ?
Not really, as long as we come up with a debian-cd based approach that
I can do as an extra step in the build process. The current mini-CDs
I've seen were all mostly hand-crafted, which didn't strike me as very
maintainable.
> o does it place an unreasonable burden on any other people involved
> (in debate about what packages must be on/off - must there be a
> mini iso1_NONUS or not.. or misc stuff)
Should we be aiming at "as small an image as is useful" or "as much
useful stuff as we can fit on a business card CD" ?
I tend to prefer something that would double as a reasonable rescue
CD, with a few extra tools on it, and with the possibility of booting
into a ram disk based system with bash and ssh available, at least.
Thoughts?
> o how much disk space are we talking about ? should it meet some
> particular standard so it can be reused (e.g CreditCard isos ?)
I think it should certainly be no bigger than CreditCard iso size, and
probably smaller, since most people will not want it for that, but
just to quickly burn onto a CD and start a net install.
Maybe we should do 2. The smallest possible useful net-install CD,
and the most useful possible CreditCard iso. They're both going to be
pretty small, so space isn't much of an issue, just deciding what
needs to go on them.
Cheers, Phil.
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