On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:23:42PM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote: > Why are the base disks stored on the web pages? > > Why don't we just link to the ftp/http archive? > Because there is no clean way to have each mirror point to a different location. The install used to point into ftp.debian.org but that caused a lot of headaches since newbies couldn't cope with that.
The images are fairly static and only take 100MB. If the size makes a difference, I'd rather see the images on the mirrors then the Lists-Archives. Jay Treacy
