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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
cc: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>, garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson),
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Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:52:43 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:56:09 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > IMHO, the Live FS CD is the only one we need for the present
> > distribution.  The install CD is there only because the installation
> > procedures are still geared towards compressed files copied across the
> > net.  There's no reason (apart from a little bit of missing software)
> > not to install from the live file system.
> It would be MUCH slower.

It would also make the CD far less useful as an installation mechanism
for clusters of machines.  I know more than a few FTP areas which are
directly populated from our CDs.

					Jordan