[Quantian-general] Sorry !!!Fw: Quantian 0.7.9.2 on CD

[Luis A. Izquierdo]

Sorry,  I don't know how I send this unfinished message to the list.
Excuse me Dirk !!!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Luis A. Izquierdo" <lizquierdo at finlay.edu.cu>
To: <quantian-general at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Cc: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: Quantian 0.7.9.2 on CD


> 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
>     >
>
>