live usbstick iso name/location

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:32:07 -0000 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 21 February 2021  at 21:51, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Re: live usbstick iso name/location (at least in part)
> 
> >On 21/02/2021 15:05, Colin Law wrote:
> >> Why would anyone think that you need to download a special version,
> >> nowhere is there any suggestion of that.
> >
> >Because for many years, they were two separate things: a boot-from-CD 
> >(or USB) version to try it out, and a full installation. The reason I 
> >think was that CDs and early USB simply weren't big enough.
> 
> ISO images were also smaller, I forget when they became too big for a CD

Depends on the distro.  Ubuntu presumes a network install, so the install 
media *never* contains the all of the distro's packages.  RedHat presumes the 
install is to a machine that is not on the Internet, so the install media has 
ALL of the distro's installable packages.  RedHat and CentOS had 3 (or 4) 
*CDs*, then a whole DVD, then two DVDs, now optical media has been given up on 
and the boot/install media is presumed to be a greater then 8Gig USB drive. 

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