On Wed 10 Oct, Ben Collins wrote:
I've brought this up before. I went to go get an ISO, and was presented
with 50 questions about what I intended to do with it, and what type of
person I was. It's rediculous, regardless of the issue it is trying to
solve.
I sympathise, but any suggestion of
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(5) Download the ISO : a burden on servers, even with mirrors, and to be
avoided in preference to (3) or (4) if you -must- have CDs.
One question I have about the whole pseudo-image thing:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Wookey wrote:
On Wed 10 Oct, Ben Collins wrote:
I've brought this up before. I went to go get an ISO, and was presented
with 50 questions about what I intended to do with it, and what type of
person I was. It's rediculous, regardless of the issue it is trying to
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Ted Cabeen wrote:
It doesn't save bandwidth on the clients. It saves bandwith on the
servers. There are a lot more debian mirrors than there are debian-cd
mirrors, and they're a lot better distributed as well. The rsync just
blends the downloaded packages into a
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Ted Cabeen wrote:
It doesn't save bandwidth on the clients. It saves bandwith on the
servers. There are a lot more debian mirrors than there are debian-cd
mirrors, and they're a lot better distributed as well. The rsync
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
At the moment there is no problem with downloading Debian iso images, but
when woody is released ...
Well, that is usually solvable quite good with a primary site that only
allows other mirrors to connect. After those 10-20 mirrors or so
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
Speaking as a cd image mirror admin: Yes.
what you said.
Checking the list of mirrors europe seems to have enough mirrors to
provide easy http/ftp downloads. I don't know enough about the bandwidth
situation in US or Australia though.
yes -
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
I know the problem, I'm already working on getting the filesystem big
enough to handle it. And if you know you are topologically close to
another mirror with lots of bandwidth that has them, it should take more
than a couple of hours to one day
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
At the moment there is no problem with downloading Debian iso images, but
when woody is released ...
The main download sites (not just the ISO ones) especially us.debian.org
do get clogged up when new releases (and sometimes security updates) come
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