On 3/21/2006 3:41 PM houghi wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:15:55PM +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote: > I understand the reasoning. > >> Most people try not to download the whole thing. If you only need the >> first three, then download them. Then you have everything you need to >> start installing. > > I would say most people will download the whole thing. If they were > interested in only downloading what they needed, we only would need either > boot.iso or CD1.
1. Boot.iso and CD1 are not "complete". If you want to install a "normal" system, you will need CD1-3 AFAIK. >> That should be the first goal, to get the people to installation >> quickly, without having them using the FTPs for too long. > > Quickly? boot.iso or CD1. But not "complete, see above. >> Maybe the 3CD-Set torrent (one for 1-3, one for 4+5) would be a good >> idea. Then everybody would get the first 3CD-Set, and hopefully seed >> them again. Then this would be an improvement regarding the FTP-Load. > > That could be a nice solution. Lets hope for it then. OJ -- Have you ever noticed that the Klingons are all speaking unix? 'Grep ls awk chmod.'' 'Mknod ksh tar imap.' 'Wall fsck yacc!' (that last is obviously a curse of some sort). Gandalf Parker
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