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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> On 3/19/06, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > AFAIK, the plan is to ship the Live CD, with Espresso on it, which
> > allows Shipit to only ship a single cd. This means that Shipit will
> > also ship Kubuntu cds for Dapper.
> >
> > As for servers, there is the ubuntu-server iso. For fai and other
> > methods of installing the desktop, the regular install cd has not gone
> > anywhere, it will just be a bit harder to find, as by default users
> > will be directed to download the LiveCD.
> 
> Is it possible to install additional packages off the LiveCD once you
> have installed? I've never considered this - since the
> bandwidth-challenged users always prefer installing packages from CD
> rather than over the 'net...

Yes, in theory, though in practice the live CD doesn't have much space for
extra packages.

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 - mdz