On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: > CD burning > > burning the CDs on demand was a BAD BAD BAD idea. I think we shouldn't > have done it that way since : > a. it took a lot of time. > b. Alon was the only one who took care of it - [snip] > c. There was only one cd-burner. > d. Some CD burns didn't came out right.
Maybe the md5sum of the disc should be checked immedietly after the burn? > it's my guess is that some people won't be able to install from the new > CDs they bought. > f. it took lots of time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Computer people should know how to work around such a speed limitation: * an extra burner * make in advance a stock of some popular distros Recall that preparing the CDs in advance has also proved to be problematic: you have to sponser this, and you're stuck with the exact amount you have made in advance, as opposed to burned CDs, where your limitation is only the number of empty CDs (which are easier to "arrange"/buy. Also: how many computers had a network adapter? What about network installations? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
