Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Tim Schmidt]

In case it wasn't previously clear, I'd prefer the use of better
compression with squashfs to keep everything on the Desktop CD as is,
however, if that's not possible, or for consideration in the future, I
think an alternate install CD (like we have currently) with the full
base install, and a Desktop CD with most of the base install, and a
stupid-simple way to grab the rest via the network (ala Debian's
netinstall - perhaps as a simple extra step in espresso), is a very
acceptable compromise.  It still gives us a full install on a CD, and
a live CD with a fully functional install...  and a full install
perhaps as little as a few Mb of network access away.

So we get:

Alternate CD: all base packages

Desktop CD: most base packages, reasonably functional live CD that can
also install Ubuntu, needs to download 25Mb of packages to install
everything the Alternate CD does, but it's a built-in part of the
install-to-disk process.

--tim