On 18/02/10 18:55, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The easy way round this is to use the alternate installation image rather than the live cd image...the alt image has the same installer as Ubuntu Server...although I agree it really really should be an option on the GUI installer method.
I've never quite worked out why there isn't a DVD option with a boot menu for all of the disks (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/UNR/Ubuntu Server/Alternate/etc).
Surely there is significant overlap between the different versions of the distro so the total size of the DVD would be much less than the combined size of the CDs. I'm not even sure there'd need to be separate 32 and 64-bit versions - surely a lot is common between those too? (Even if all the application binaries are different, the documentation and other "data" will be common.)
Each release sees me downloading at least 3 of the CD ISOs. I think a DVD would save them some bandwidth (it would for me, anyway, and it would be great as a magazine cover CD).
(It could probably even include Mint, Mythbuntu, and a host of others!)