On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> [Geez, 3 lists?]
>
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > nobody has yet provided a convincing argument for putting the
> > > tarball on the CDs.
> >
> > Of the machines that I get a chance to install Debian on
> [cut]
> > 25% don't even have a CD-ROM drive.
> [cut]
> > So I'd say about 30% of machines I see need the whole base install done
> > from floppies.
>
> So how does it help to have a 24MB file on the CD?
I would think that would be obvious. It saves about 5 hours of download
time on a 56K modem. It provides a CD archives that matches the FTP
archives, providing least surprise to the user.
Looks like a completeness argument to me...
Luck,
Dwarf
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