Which CD to burn enmasse for ITEC? (was Re: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 now available)

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Leo Mauler
> <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Ubuntu comes with a LiveCD.  Prior to v8.04, 
> > Ubuntu even required that you boot into the 
> > LiveCD before you could install Ubuntu on 
> > your system.
> >
> > One of the things I really liked about Ubuntu 
> > 8.04 LTS was that the opening plaintext menu 
> > now includes an option to skip the LiveCD boot 
> > and go straight to an install.
> 
> There have been the Alternate Install CDs for some time. 

Yes, but the Alternative Install CD only has a text-based installer.  Sometimes you just wanted the GUI, but Ubuntu (until now) made you load the LiveCD just to get to the GUI installer.  Now regular Ubuntu lets you have the GUI installer while avoiding the RAM-consuming LiveCD boot, and thats just perfect.

> And I've been running Ubuntu long enough to remember 
> the Debian based text installer thta they started out 
> with that is still what is used for GUI-less installs.
> Heck, I'm such a masochist that I was installing Ubuntu 
> 5.04 on OldWorld ROM Macs.  Trust me, dealing with
> non-MacOS on pre-G3 hardware is not much fun.  But, I 
> digress even more...

Don't get me wrong, I'm okay with the Linux text-based installer.  I've installed Slackware 7.1 from floppies on occasions too numerous to mention here, including formatting a floppy or two to 1.7MB just so some of the larger packages on the Slackware 7.1 CD could be "sneakernet" installed onto a PC which was giving me network issues.