On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > It seems logical to me; the installer wants to find as complete as > possible a copy of the debian archive and doesn't really need to > continue to find other copies once one has been found. Same reason it > doesn't ask for CDs after you've given it DVDs..
It's logical from the installer's pov, but not from a _user's_ pov. How the hell is he supposed to guess that he will be asked about additional CDs later when confronted with a question about a network mirror? If I (as a newbie) were confronted by that question I would think "OK, so that's it: I either use the mirror or have to do with what's included on this one CD; let's choose the mirror to be safe". With my proposal the user will _know_ at the time of the mirror question how many CDs/DVDs he already has available which makes answering "No" to the mirror question a lot less scary. And you're not answering the case where someone would want to use 2 CDs + a network mirror because he has a reasonable but not great Internet connection. One of the main reasons I have a local mirror and happily download some 50-100 GB each month - most of which I'll never use - is exactly to avoid long downloads when updating and doing installer tests, even though I have broadband (though not very big broadband). > Summary of all offerings[4] of US CD vendors: Guess (at least some) Dutch sellers are less money hungry than US ones then: - http://www.dddi.nl/neword_en.html - http://www.munnikes.nl/cd/cart/index.php?action=cat&cat=193&kid=b14 I agree that something like the first does is probably exceptional (and will probably scare real newbies :-) I also don't see it as a problem that they don't sell netinsts: if you're going to use a netinst (and possibly even single full CD) you _have_ a got Internet connection so you'll be able to download it yourself. Promoting m-a with vendors _would_ be a good idea.
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