Desktop cd and stuff like ndiswrapper-utils.

[Andrew Zajac]

On 5/26/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:46:48PM -0400, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> > I notice that ndiswrapper-utils, build-essential and linux-wlan-ng are
> not
> > available on the destop cd.
>
> This is not in fact correct; as of quite recently, we include these
> packages in an apt archive on the desktop CD so that they can easily be
> installed after installing the system to the hard disk. (If you leave
> the CD in after installation, then you'll even get a popup dialog at
> first login asking you if you want to launch Synaptic and scan the CD.)


That's excellent!  It needs to be better documented, though.  Or, at least
that apt archive should be added to the sources list that gets installed
onto the system (or on the live cd itself).  That way, the user would just
try to install the package(s) the conventional ways and get prompted for the
Desktop cd.



azz
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