Will install CD and Live CD be merged in the future?

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:33:31PM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Since the Live CD now also contains an installer I was wondering if one
> of the future plans is to merge the Live CD and the Install CD to one
> CD. The boot menu then would be the same as the one of the current
> Install CD plus one extra item which would launch the Live session.
> 
> So is this on the roadmap?

The install CD will not be going away; live CD installers are suitable
for many installation scenarios, but not all. We will not be depriving
those who need a smaller and simpler installer of their needs.

Once we're happy that the live CD installer is stable, we are likely to
send out only the live CD in shipit, to save costs. In fact, this is one
of the major driving reasons for Canonical to fund development of the
live CD installer.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]