Any chance for Linux Mint multi-edition DVD?

[Raffael]

Ok, maybe this question was asked earlier, but now as we have Gnome (main), Light, KDE, FluxBox, XFCE and last but not least x64 Edition is there any chance that there will be a DVD with all of those editions of Linux Mint 6 so we can test them Live form the DVD or install the one we want. It would be much easier to have one disc than 6 CDs.

[Husse]

Well this one disk would have to be as large as the other disks combined

[mikpap]

Great idea, no matter what the size of such an iso image would be. It would be fantastic...

[Raffael]

Well this one disk would have to be as large as the other disks combined

6 Editions * 700 MB = 4200 MB = 1 DVD

[rivenought]

A Mint 4.2 GB DVD makes for a bigger monster than the 3.4 GB openSUSE DVD. That openSUSE DVD took an extremely loooooong time to download via torrent. I am talking DAYS, here. For those of us who barely have broadband, I would prefer that a Mint GNOME Main CD version always be available. Just sharing my thoughts...

[Raffael]

A Mint 4.2 GB DVD makes for a bigger monster than the 3.4 GB openSUSE DVD. That openSUSE DVD took an extremely loooooong time to download via torrent. I am talking DAYS, here. For those of us who barely have broadband, I would prefer that a Mint GNOME Main CD version always be available. Just sharing my thoughts...

I'm not saying that it should be instead of CD editions but alongside.

[rivenought]

I can go with "alongside," since openSUSE (and Mandriva, amongst others) offers the same options you mention. Once the giant openSUSE DVD is downloaded, practically everything I need is already in the repository included on the DVD. Back when I did not have an Internet connection, openSUSE's "kitchen-sink" approach was quite handy.

[ronnoc]

Sounds good to me. This would also allow people to see what flavor of mint runs better on their system than another (for example, I've read here that some people have had better like in some cases with wireless out of the box using the KDE version than with the main). Or, people could easily test how much faster their system might be running XFCE instead of KDE or the main edition...I like the idea, if it is easy enough to do.

[campamax]

Hi all. I am a Linux newbie (well, I have been occasionally using Puppy for more than a year now to learn something more about Linux) who a couple of months ago decided to make a dual boot with WinXP and Elyssa on my corporate laptop (leaving the ntldr not to interfere too much with the corporate install...).

I am happy with Mint, that at the moment gave me very little problems (occasional disconnection form my wireless router), but I would like to discover more - first of all, with so many people speaking so well about KDE, which desktop environment is closer to my needs. I so started downloading OpenSUSE to test a KDE4 desktop on a different "famous" distribution, when I suddenly wondered: is there a way to ADD the KDE desktop to an existing Elyssa standard install? Is this something I can do someway starting from the Mint KDE DVD, or can I do that by the repos? I tried to look into the Elyssa software portal and in the GetDeb site, but there seems to be nothing called KDE.

Can anyone help??

Thans a lot
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campamax

[kanishka]

I second the idea of an all-minty DVD. It would be very handy for "broadbanded" people

[terrorblader]

Thumbs up from me too.I am actually curious to try XFCE & FluxBox (never tried them).

[campamax]

I second the idea of an all-minty DVD. It would be very handy for "broadbanded" people

Me too, if it is then possible to access it as a repository to select what to add to the install.
Good idea!
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campamax


EDIT:
I tried to add the CD as a repo, but failed. The I mounted the squashfs file in it, but I was not capable to go any further.
Could anyone more experienced than me try to help?? Thanks a lot!!

[Raffael]

Maybe this: http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso- ... -os-cd.htm will be some help for those who wnat to make this on their own.

[Raffael]

I've found out that there is already something like that but with Ubuntu flavors. It's called ningi http://www.ubuntu-hr.org/ningi/ . I think it would be a good idea to analyze their DVD so we would have clues how to build Linux Mint DVD.