Hi, On Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > am I correct that this is because the DVD only installs packages > > from the DVD while the CD also installs stuff from the net? > Yes, but you miss the reason why it is this way. The DVD is intended > to be self contained, to allow for example a school in the savannah in > Africa to get a fully working Skolelinux installation even thought > there is no Internet connection available. I didnt miss that. > We could try to enable network during installation, but it would not > solve the goal of making the DVD self contained. True. But it would solve another goal (which I consider implicit): identical installation undependend of the media used. And the DVD could still be self contained without network, but then - for today - the installation would be different. So DVD+net ~= CD+net install, while DVD install != CD+net install. IMO thats better, as the majority of DVD installs has network access. Also I dont think it's possible today anymore, to put 2 archs and 3 desktop environments (of that size) on a single layer DVD. cheers, Holger, wo saw a full linux desktop in 64mb yesterday :)
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