[Quantian-general] Quantian 0.7.9.2 on CD

[Luis A. Izquierdo]

 I have found some students of Cumputer Science ( one my sons included )
than
    could
    help me. They know LINUX but are not familiar with Knopix nither
Quantian.
    I think it would be better to receive your advise out the list because
my
    singular problem
    (and ignorance).
    In developing countries DVD drives are not so frequent, then the
solution of
    my
    problem could be interesting to other poor statisticians.
    Thanks in advance,
    Luis Izquierdo
    Instituto Finlay / CUBA
    "Get up and go or sit around and die"
              native australian saying

>
    > 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
    >
    > --
    > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
    >                                                   -- Thomas A. Edison
    >