On 20 May 2022 15:11:09 BST, Zhang Boyang <zhangboyang.id@gmail.com> wrote:
Package: debian-cd
Hello,
I suggest debian release a new variant of ISO images, the all-in-one images. These all-in-one image contains ALL debian packages in a single ISO image (possibly all source packages in another all-in-one ISO image). Of course there is no such optical media can hold such a big image, but it is useful for virtual-machines, remotely managed servers, and archival purposes. The theoretical size limit of an ISO9660 filesystem is about 8TB, which is sufficient for including all debian packages.
For the name of this variant, I suggest 'everything', 'allinone', 'world', 'virt'.
p.s. This is my personal interest, and I would appreciate if you can kindly consider my suggestion.
Best Regards,
Zhang Boyang
Sorry to put a dampener on your suggestion but why would you need that?
Why not just mirror the archive to a local disk instead?
Then you have your copy of everything and can just point a netinst at your local mirror so you can install from there.
I think that would deliver on every use case that you would be able to use your big ISO image and more....