Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sun Oct 23 18:09:23 CDT 2005


On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:01:24AM +0200, Sivan Green wrote:
> On 12:55, Fri 21 Oct 05, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:13:14PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
> > > Or an a similar theme have the iso generated on the fly letting the user
> > > choose components on the download page?
> > 
> > Nice in theory but it takes around 10 minutes and lots of server load.
> 
> IIRC, aren't we going to provide that through Launchpad?

To my knowledge we have never seriously considered generating CD images on
the fly.  They need to be bit-accurate in order to be certified through
testing, and assembling them requires a great deal of disk I/O.

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 - mdz



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