From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESKcR-0000kK-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:33:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9JKUR9M028673; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:30:27 GMT Received: from creativecommunications.com (host124-162.rancor.birch.net [65.17.124.162]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9JKUPYj027452 for <gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:30:26 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.145] (unknown [192.168.1.145]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1D0229C018 for <gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:33:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4356AC64.9040506@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:28:20 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-installer+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-installer+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-installer+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-installer.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-installer@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later? References: <20051019175931.5159A23D1B@ws5-3.us4.outblaze.com> <1129748028.25724.9.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <558b73fb0510191241p6d202b0aq85d861b42cc0ec4f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0510191241p6d202b0aq85d861b42cc0ec4f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 763349ed-02aa-4545-a016-e668fc08cd11 X-Archives-Hash: 508f1d3aa23657013a2d11dbb0d57d33 Michael Crute wrote: > Why not replace the minimal livecd too? Just add an option to do > graphical or "expert" install when you boot the livecd. That would help > you guys not have to generate so many CD images plus you get the best of > both worlds. Pretty much the only thing you would do is dump people into > a terminal instead of starting X for an expert install, all the tools > would still be there. Anyhow... just my $0.02 Because 60MB is a lot less to download than 700MB. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-installer@gentoo.org mailing list