In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:07:02 +0000
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> Create DVDs with All of Ubuntu's Packages
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> | The script promises to generate 4 DVD images (.iso files), and might
> | require as much as 30 GB of hard disk space.
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> http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/create-dvds-with-all-of-ubuntus-packages/
>
> Crazier than a browser with 100 extensions. Can you imagine the size of the
> GNOME/KDE menus?
Maybe, but it's a nice problem to have. :-)
(If one has the disk space.)
For its part the Vista "installer" is apparently going to
be (or is) a preconfigured version of Vista that simply
gets decompressed then onto one's PC more or less verbatim.
This new installatin method is apparently called a
'.WIM' file. The image is file-based (similar to tar)
rather than sector-based (dd).
http://digg.com/tech_news/Inside_Vista_s_new_image_based_install_3
http://apcmag.com/node/3834
Whoopee. Yet Another File Format. Oh, the enthusiasm. I wonder
if they'll patent it.
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