general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, This may be a somewhat dumb question but it might have some merits so I am going to ask it. From the postings on the list I have received so far I have learned some interesting facts about jigdo, Sarge, Etch i386 and Etch AMD64. I am very grateful to everyone who responded

Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Wackojacko
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, This may be a somewhat dumb question but it might have some merits so I am going to ask it. From the postings on the list I have received so far I have learned some interesting facts about jigdo, Sarge, Etch i386 and Etch AMD64. I am very

Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: My question is this: What degree of common files would exist between all or certain sub groups of these different architectures? There is quite an overlap - all the *_all.deb files are common from one arch to the next. Would there be enough in either

Re: general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:30:51PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: However, it does seem as though Etch AMD64 does share a reasonable number of files in common with Etch i386... My new question is this: If you look on the Debian installer page you see that distributions of the OS