Linux distro on DVD

[Rich Edelman]

(Oops, forgot to send to list as well first time)
On Friday 30 January 2004 09:54 pm, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:04:40 -0600 "Mick Ohrberg" <mohrberg at kc.rr.com>
> writes:
> > I apologize if this has been answered before - I
> > couldn't find it in the archives.
> >
> > Have anyone tried to combine multiple RedHat CD
> > ISO-images on one DVD? As long as it can be made
> > bootable, I wouldn't think it THAT difficult?
> >
> > Please let me know if anyone has done it.
>
> I know that "Linux Format" magazine (U.K.) frequently does this sort of
> thing with distributions on its magazines which are distributed with a
> companion DVD.
>
> They include instructions for converting the DVD distribution into
> individual ISOs (after someone complained when the first time they did
> not include these instructions) but I would assume that they also would
> be able to explain how they put the entire distro onto a single DVD.
>
> Just off my bookshelf I can see that the LinuxFormat DVDs I have from
> 2002 (I stopped being able to afford it on a regular basis in 2003) have
> a complete Slackware 8.1 distro on Sept2002, a complete Debian 3.0_r0
> distribution on Nov2002, and a complete Mandrake 9.0 distro on Dec2002.
>
> Borders and MicroCenter both carry LinuxFormat magazine ($13.95 U.S.).
>
> Despite being technically "old news" (example: the issue you'll find in
> the U.S. this month is last month's edition), the LinuxFormat audience is
> apparently composed of more average users and less programmers, given
> that their ratio of "fun stuff with Linux" to "programming Linux"
> articles is the exact opposite of U.S. Linux magazines (example:
> LinuxJournal (U.S.) is more likely to have an article on "Writing New
> Apache Modules In Perl - Part 4 of 8" than an article about "Playing
> Windows Games Under Linux", while LinuxFormat has the reverse
> probability).  Their companion CDs/DVD (your choice of two CDs or one
> DVD) usually have a lot more "average user" stuff on them than U.S.
> companion CDs do.
>
> I've noticed I enjoy reading LinuxFormat more than U.S. Linux magazines
> as I'm more an average user of Linux than a programmer.
I'm more of a programmer than an average user (I'm a programmer and system 
administrator) but I find that I enjoy reading LinuxFormat more than the US 
Linux magazines as well.  I don't have a subscription but I do buy the 
magazine fairly often... at $13.95 a pop it's fairly expensive, but the DVD 
usually makes it worth it as well. A full subscription is around $150 a year, 
too steep for many of us I'm sure.

Anyway, the latest issue had Fedora Core 1 on DVD, and as I've got a DVD 
burner I'd be happy to burn it for anyone that wants a copy. I could even 
seperate it out to CDs.

Rich