Desktop cd and stuff like ndiswrapper-utils.

[Andrew Zajac]

On 5/26/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:31:17AM -0400, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> > On 5/26/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >This is not in fact correct; as of quite recently, we include these
> > >packages in an apt archive on the desktop CD so that they can easily be
> > >installed after installing the system to the hard disk. (If you leave
> > >the CD in after installation, then you'll even get a popup dialog at
> > >first login asking you if you want to launch Synaptic and scan the CD.)
> >
> > That's excellent!  It needs to be better documented, though.  Or, at
> least
> > that apt archive should be added to the sources list that gets installed
> > onto the system (or on the live cd itself).  That way, the user would
> just
> > try to install the package(s) the conventional ways and get prompted for
> the
> > Desktop cd.
>
> I did want to do this, but it was too tight up against the Dapper
> release freeze; I'll do it in Edgy. It should go in the Dapper release
> notes or something like that, I think.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



I wonder what the doc team can come up with to avoid having a lot of people
not know  that these packages are there for them.



azz
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