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- Dave Blaszyk wrote:
- >
- > Although I agree with a "central" distribution scheme. I don't believe that
- > using a FF CDROM as the best solution. Since to distribute the CD properly you
- > would need a multi-session disk and most people or even some don't have support
- > for multi-session disks.
-
- I don't believe any of the PC linux disks are multi-session. I don't see
- any benefit to multi-session even if most people were able to use it. Do
- you mean returning the discs to have updates added, or something? In
- this case, the first disc would be low cost, and updates would cost many
- times the price of the original disk! It's cheaper just to get a new
- disk for each version.
-
- > The best possible distribution would be similiar to how Linux is provided by
- > Yadgrsill (sp?). A complete, bootable version of Linux...
-
- [I think it's "Yggdrasil". Don't ask me to pronounce it :-)]
-
- This is what we're attempting. I'd like to make it so that users can
- run straight from the cdrom with only small root and swap partitions on
- their hard disk, but have the option to later install more of the system
- onto their HD if they wish. At any rate, this is one thing we'll be
- expirimenting with, to find out exactly what works best.
-
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- Ty Sarna "Oh, I don't know *everything*. I don't
- tsarna@endicor.com even know how fish work." -- Joel, MST3K
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