From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12511 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Aug 2003 12:43:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12906 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2003 12:43:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:43:48 -0400 From: Kurt Lieber To: Luke-Jr Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030820124348.GN1161@mail.lieber.org> References: <20030818194238.GR1161@mail.lieber.org> <200308190133.21887.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20030819064706.GB1138@gentoo.org> <200308200112.09533.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hM/lGOQzldWtPIBP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308200112.09533.luke-jr@gentoo.org> X-GPG-Key: http://www.lieber.org/kurtl.pub.gpg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat X-Archives-Salt: 790351c2-24bc-4358-817b-969b7c84d873 X-Archives-Hash: 4fb87d43f7a4e8b5a19ddbde111dc1e7 --hM/lGOQzldWtPIBP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:10:30AM +0000 or thereabouts, Luke-Jr wrote: > Graphical browsers are much more preferable to things like lynx (which do= esn't=20 > even handle tables properly, IIRC). Is 4.4 MB really too much for a nice= =20 > graphical browser? The docs could probably even get away with saying to u= se=20 > the Setup->Network options menu item if a proxy is needed. As Chris pointed out, yes -- it is too much. We have a full-featured, knoppix-like LiveCD that folks who want additional functionality may use. What we don't have (or, more accurately, no longer have) is a truly "basic" LiveCD that offers only the tools necessary to complete an install. =20 --kurt --hM/lGOQzldWtPIBP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Q20EJPpRNiftIEYRAvhkAJ9yZ7JJzX+jWDqUmZTSbx9KRMNiWwCcCT9Y EgYG3cZYVAtG8UInJUy3Zw4= =BuEV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hM/lGOQzldWtPIBP--