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Why Desktop & Alternate CDs separatly ?

Asked by Jonathan Marsaud

Hello,

I thing about it : why Alternate CD exist ? Why don't you make a CD who do LiveCD AND text-installer ?

I think the text-installer is verry little, and it can be added to the actual Desktop CD, isnt'it ?

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Jonathan Marsaud (zic) said : 		#1

EDIT : Because 700Mo for a simple text-installer added is so big for little connection with PC configuration can't run a LiveCD ...

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#2

The alternate CD exists for people who want to upgrade an existing system or who have trouble with the graphical (live) CD.

The two CDs are architecturally completely different. The desktop (live) CD has a bootable system which is merely copied directly onto the hard disk (with some preparation before and cleaning up after). The alternate CD has a repository (much like a cut-down ubuntu repository you install applications from online).

So whilst the text installer is quite small, the repository it requires is almost the size of one whole CD. So you could not fit them both on one CD.

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Best Jonathan Marsaud (zic) said : 		#3

Thanks for your reponse :)