[Quantian-general] Quantian 0.7.9.2 on CD

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Luis,

On 8 March 2006 at 10:19, Luis A. Izquierdo wrote:
| Please, I know nothing about LINUX, and  I am in my first steps.

That is hard. You need to know about how Linux works to remaster. 

| I would like to know if it it possible select a subset of Quantian 0.7.9.2.

Sure. Mathematically speaking an almost infinite number of variations can be
created just by permutations of the current ~2600 packages but ...

| with the tools that I need ( R-CRAN, Bioconductor,.. etc) but which could

... imposing contraints on content implies constraints on size which ...

| be inside a CD ( not DVD) 

... you may find hard to satisfy within 700mb compressed. Consider this:

edd at joe:~/src/quantian/source> du -csm usr/lib/R usr/share/R usr/local/lib/R
243     usr/lib/R
15      usr/share/R
1366    usr/local/lib/R
1622    total

1.6 gb uncompressed for all of R implies approximatly 500 mb compressed. That
is almost one CD just for R and all of its goodies.  Now, you may not need
all 877 CRAN/BioConductor/... packages so you could save "some" but I hope
you see the general problem.

| and be bootable in PC with WinXP and Win2000.

That's easy. Anything "bootable" on a PC boots irrespective of which version
of the OS may or may not be installed.

Given the size contraints, and the Windoze environment, I would highly
recommend that you look into the freely-available-but-not-open-source VMware
Player.

Ciao, Dirk

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