Paul Cager dijo [Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:29:04AM +0000]: > [...] > > 1. Is it worth making full sets of CDs at all? Can we rely on people > > having a net connection or being able to use DVDs if they want > > *everything*? > > 2. Is it worth producing all the CDs/DVDs/whatever for all the > > architectures? > > 3. For some arches, should we just provide the first couple of CDs > > and a full set of DVDs? This is a bit of a compromise option - if > > a given machine will not boot from DVD, but can boot from CD and > > get the rest of its packages from a network share then all's good. > > 4. ??? - what else would be a sane option? > > (I'd better disclose a conflict of interest - I sell Debian CDs and DVDs). > > I'd quite like there to be full sets for i386 and amd64. I think an > inexperienced user could find it quite discouraging to have to > install using a mapped drive. > > What about a modification of 3? For the less popular arches we > provide the first couple of CD images, but the other CDs are only > available as jigdo downloads. Does that make sense? You'd still > have to create every CD image, of course, but the mirrors would have > to carry much less data / traffic.
Official mirrors only carry the individual .debs and the Jigdo description files :) So I think your proposal is dealt with. Of course, some people provide pre-cooked ISO files for download. /me throws question at the void: Would it be feasible to get something akin to an inverse-FUSE that presents ISO files in the presence of the individual debs and Jigdo files? Yes, it would probably be much more processor-intensive than just downloading a file, so I might be talking nonsense... -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]