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Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 11:46:15 UTC 2021


On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 00:10, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Depends on the distro.

Well, yes. Even 15+ years ago, SUSE Professional came on about 7 DVDs.

>  Ubuntu presumes a network install

This is not true.

> so the install
> media *never* contains the all of the distro's packages.

This is not true.

>  RedHat presumes the
> install is to a machine that is not on the Internet, so the install media has
> ALL of the distro's installable packages.  RedHat and CentOS had 3 (or 4)
> *CDs*, then a whole DVD, then two DVDs, now optical media has been given up on
> and the boot/install media is presumed to be a greater then 8Gig USB drive.

These changes are true of basically all mainstream general-purpose distros.

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