[ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd again... ] AJ wrote: >On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst) >> ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set >> ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set >> (total 353 CDs, 51 DVDs, 426 GB) > >Bluray image? Apparently there's been a winner in the format wars, >and we could probably fit an entire arch on a single disc...
Yeah, that would be cool. When somebody gets the time to work on it and test the output. :-) >Should we be counting a live CD/DVD/BD image in there too? Probably, yes. I looked into live CDs for etch, but had problems. I should be looking into that again for lenny. >Is it possible to do a javascript implementation of jigdo, so we could >reasonably just publish a list of the files that need to go on most of >the CDs instead of the entire iso images? If you can download an image >via jigdo just by clicking in your browser, that'd seem like we could >rely on jigdo much more heavily than we have. Ooh, now that's a cute idea. :-) I'll add that as a SoC suggested project right now. >How many different boot images do we have these days? We used to have >a different boot image on each of the first N CDs, do we still do that? No, we gave up on that quite a while ago. >Is there really a lot of value in the netinst image, versus the business >card? You're going to be downloading stuff anyway, so the only difference >I can see is if your system can download once you've got base installed, >but can't from the installer. Would it be simpler just to expect that >class of people to grab a full CD/DVD image (and thus have more than just >base available once they've rebooted and are trying to get net working)? The netinst is much more likely to be useful longer-term; you have a minimal but useable base system from the CD, with nothing further required. If (for example) there has been another point release or d-i update since your businesscard image was created it may break... >At a bare minimum: > > - installer - downloadable (business card) > - installer+base - jigdo-only? (netinst) > - CD - disk 1 downloadable, disk 2+ jigdo-only > - DVD - disk 1 downloadable, disk 2+ jigdo-only > - BD - one image jigdo-only > >That's 25MB + 650MB + 4GB of images per-arch, for about 61GB in total, >plus a whole bunch of jigdo images (about 500?). Yup. >Is it possible to create a jigdo image without creating the full >ISO? ie, to go from a list of files you want on the ISO straight to a >jigdo template without the intervening step of actually copying all the >files around? Oh, absolutely. That's one of the biggest changes I made in debian-cd/mkisofs to improve performance. However... if we want to continue providing torrent downloads (which are very popular, I understand) then we do still need to make the full images too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
