Adrian
Reply on 20-10-2006 14:04:56 <<<> We're currently planning to produce the following media for installation:
* 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME or KDE (any language)
I think 5CDs are supportable. But for a future release it would be very nice if the distribution of the packages could be optimized in a way that not so many CDs would be needed for a Standard installation (standard installation shall mean what get's installed if I just click NEXT all the times, as most users anyhow do). I think at least shrinking this to TWO CDs (better would be ONE) should be possible.
* 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it
I assume it will contain about the same things as up to now? Java, Flash, Real and so on? Something completely new to know about this Disc?
* 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in *all* languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media)
The CD should be well marked on the download site, informing users what for exactly this CD is. Like: What features do you get in plus (feature means: what program(s) get support for more languages)
* 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media (the DVD will only come with the final version to save bandwidth and mirror space)
Nothing to say about. Just don't create a 8th CD, or the DVD will be to small (if the CDs are full)
* a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version)
* a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version)
Will the FTP tree again contain more packages than the CDs/DVD? I assume it does. In this case, I absolutely would like to see the question during the installation to add/replace the CD/DVD Installation source by the FTP-Tree. Default selection would most probably be "no", as far not everybody has a high speed internet connection. Comments on this? Or already implemented? (Alpha 5 did not offer something like this)
The DVD we delivered with Alpha5 has the content of the above mentioned DVD,
Andreas --
Regards, Dominique