Merging Live and Install CDs

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:22:04PM +0100, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:25:11PM +0530, Sridhar Ratna wrote:
> > Why not have single CD that does boot lively and can be installed to
> > hard disk, instead of having two?
> 
> If it could be done, I think it would be done.
> 
> A LiveCD contains the packages as if they were installed on a hard disk
> and a Install cd contains uninstalled packages. There is just not enough
> space on a cd for both.
> 
> However, on a DVD ...

I did most of the infrastructure work necessary for this earlier today.
I'm currently just waiting for Apache on cdimage.ubuntu.com to be fixed
to handle >2GB files correctly.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]