[Quantian-general] A new cd version

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 March 2007 at 18:10, Robert W. Hayden wrote:
| Forwarded message:
| > From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Quesada?=" <zeitus at gmail.com>
| > 
| > I would like to know if there is any possibility of an updated version
| > of quantian. This is because here in Colombia most of the computers
| > don't come with DVD reader/writter, so the DVD version is not very
| > iseful. I know that this fact would imlply not including all of the
| > packages of the DVD version but If at least this new CD bersion come
| > with the majority of the Packages of the last CD version updated would
| > be great
|  
| I have thought about this.  A CD is about 1/7 the size of a DVD so it
| certainly could not hold a majority of the applications on a DVD.

Right. So you always end up offending some people whose favourite application
you just removed.

And while the dvd-sized iso is to large for cdrom, it can still be booted 
-- using an actual cdrom, and the then bootfrom= option
-- from the hard disk using Lilo/Grub 
-- from the hard disk using qemu or vmware player

Regards, Dirk

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