> On 2008-03-16 23:59:52 (+0000), Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > > > > 1. Is it worth making full sets of CDs at all? Can we rely on people > > having a net connection or being able to use DVDs if they want > > *everything*? In the real world, there are many people who do not have fast, reliable connections; nor does everybody have DVD roms. Is it worth it? I do feel that it is on popular arch's. See below: > > 2. Is it worth producing all the CDs/DVDs/whatever for all the > > architectures? I feel that, what should be done, is make a "Core Media Install Set" that would be just the basic standardized install for desktop and/or server for CDs, DVDs, Flash Drives, etc and the rest of the full set can be downloaded at a later date due to the growing size of Debian, because it will only get bigger. I also think the popular arch's should all be available for the full line of optical media. I would think that you could sort that out easily as to which have been downloaded the most. With the least popular arch's, they would need to download the standardized cds, dvds, flash drive images,etc to install and to solve the rest of any non standardized packages, it could be downloaded thru the repositories. This would cut the total media size way down. > > 4. ??? - what else would be a sane option? There really is none, only because on one hand you have people who install Debian on computers that are not connected to the internet or that are on very slow connections that will need the software due to various mentioned/non mentioned reasons and on the other hand you have people who need/want Debian on net install media with their fast internet connections, without the hassle to switch media in-out and/or wait for all of the media to download for installation. So many choices and options....................................... "To be or Not to be?" :) Regards, -- JD. Brown Linux User # 375995 http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
