Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: *BAD THINKING!* OK, it is a hot button issue with me as I'm on dialup. Causes me to wait until DVD's are available from vendors. I've a physically small

Re: Wheezy size -- only 3 DVD ISO image files listed instead of 10

2013-05-08 Thread Mateusz Poszwa
On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:23:38 +0200 Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Hi, Mariano Lazzaro marianolazz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release

Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [snip] On the other hand if you wait a bit and then buy e.g. DVD images 1-3 you can update 95% of your system from that and download the remaining 5% over even a slot internet. That is probably better than spending money on a full 10 disk DVD set. Check which

Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: OK, it is a hot button issue with me as I'm on dialup. Causes me to wait until DVD's are available from vendors. I don't understand how having or not having DVD isos on the Debian ftp site affects you. You say you are on dialup. You are not going to be able to download

Re: Wheezy size -- only 3 DVD ISO image files listed instead of 10

2013-05-07 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Mariano Lazzaro marianolazz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) But on the debian main site says over 37500

Wheezy size

2013-05-06 Thread Mariano Lazzaro
Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) But on the debian main site says over 37500 packages, and I'm using Debian 6 which has 29000 packages

Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:57:36PM -0300, Mariano Lazzaro wrote: Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) But on the debian main site says

Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:57:36PM -0300, Mariano Lazzaro wrote: Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) But on the

Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: *BAD THINKING!* OK, it is a hot button issue with me as I'm on dialup. Causes me to wait until DVD's are available from vendors. I've a physically small install of squeeze and I seem to recall loading something from DVD 8 or 9.