On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:45:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >arypsg wrote: >> Why Debian has only 3 DVD's ISO? > >All of the DVDs images are available. It is only that Debian is not >hosting them as iso images on their download site. There are 10 DVD >images for amd64. > >But only a very unusually rare number of people will need any of the >higher numbered DVD images. I assume this is an academic question of >yours as to why the images are not available? > >> I thought amd64 and i368 are common architectures in Debian, but it seems >> that I was wrong, as you on >> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ you said: >> " For the less common architectures only a limited number of images from >> the CD and DVD sets is available as ISO file. The full sets are only >> available via jigdo." > >That does seem like a minor documentation bug that should be updated >on that page. Until they became so large all images were hosted there.
Correct; looks like I missed some references on the website when we changed from the all-iso policy. I'll fix that now. >> On http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ there are only >> 3 DVD's ISO. > >It is a problem of mirror site disk space and bandwidth. Mirror sites >do not have infinite disk space nor infinite bandwidth. There is a >cost to everything. At some point there isn't enough space nor >bandwidth nor the associated actual cost of hosting them. Mirrors >would stop hosting Debian if it grew without bounds. > >Therefore compromises must be made. The very little used images are >not hosted. It is very unusual for anyone to need or to use those >images. However they are available and you can create them for >yourself very easily. > >If you desire any or all of the 10 DVD set for amd64 then they are >available for very easy creation using jigdo-lite. Here is an example. > > # apt-get install jigdo-file > > $ mkdir jigdo-stuff > $ cd jigdo-stuff > $ jigdo-lite --noask > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/jigdo-dvd/debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo > ...lots of output and some minutes of time... > OK: Checksums match, image is good! > > $ ls -ldog debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > -rw-rw-r-- 1 3998007296 May 8 12:39 debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > >Very easy! I did the above as I wrote this response to verify that >the process was exactly as I cut and pasted it. (I also needed to >make a disk image for my own purposes so it was convenient to do.) Thanks for describing the jigdo process so well. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
