Quote Originally Posted by AvidLinuxUser
Do you really think someone is going to want to start from 33 Megs and have to instal there other software by hand?
To be honest yes.
There are a couple of reasons why I like model-K as a base for installing HDDs:
  • Knoppix has a bunch of stuff I don't care for, which proably add
    around 600 MB to the ISO size (which already takes an age and a half to D/L).
  • Knoppix is missing a bunch of stuff I actually want (KDE 3.1)
  • The Knoppix install scripts are without a doubt one of the easiest installs
    of Debian (or any distro), I've had the pleasure to use... Model-k is
    compatiable when I add on a floppy's worth of stuff.
  • It's nicer to do `cat mysystempackages.txt |dpkg --set-selections` on a
    system with very few packages installed, there is much less chance of
    having conflicts (-> less of my time to resolve dependancys).
  • model-K fits on one of my sexy 75MB mini-CDs.


The new 0.6 version of Model-k (>21 Megs) has even riped out the knx-hddinstall, but it will have an editor and wget via busybox.
Actually you ripped out knx-install and dialog already in 0.5.2, I added them back on off of my floppy.

I'm glad the system will be getting wget, I hope to use that to get rid of the floppy... curl would have been a tiny bit easier cuz it out puts to standard out I could go >`curl http://myserver.com/myinstall.txt`, but wget will work ok too...

Do you know if busybox's wget supports proxies?

-G