12.04 and RAID

[Rick Green]

On Thu, 31 May 2012, Mike Holstein wrote:

> 
> Its arguable if going to a live cd is a step forward or back, but its the step that has been taken.. ideally, we will
> have both live and alternate..
   Would it be possible to provide an alternate boot option on the 'live' 
DVD image?  There's already a 'live desktop', 'install', 'check image', 
and 'memtest' option in the grub menu.  There's plenty of room on the DVD. 
What would it take?  One more package (the text installer and related 
tools), another initrd, and we could have 'easy graphical install' as well 
as 'expert install' for those who want more choices.

   I've also wondered if there's enough room on the DVD to include even 
more packages, so that even the 'ubuntu flavor' would be an install-time 
option.  Imagine one DVD to install your choice of [Xu|Ku|Edu|U]buntu 
(Studio).  I remember spending the first hour when installing old redhat 
and Suse distros, just reading the list of options and selecting the 
packages to install.  We've come a long way towards making it 'simpler', 
maybe a bit too far.  The DVD is less than half full, I thing there's room 
for a few more choices in the install.

   I do really appreciate that the current installer seems to do a check of 
the online repositories early in the process, and grabs more-current 
versions of packages in the background during the initial install.  I had 
very few updates to apply right after the install.  I wonder if it 
optimizes those background downloads by using rsync?

-- 
Rick Green

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