On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > Having two sets of images doesn't make sense to me; the CD team have > already posted publically this cycle about the infrastructure > challenges involved with publishing those images that they already > have to accomodate, doubling the image count doesn't sound feasible, > IMHO.
I don't see the need for multiple CD sets.[1] All that should be needed is a single first CD (netinst or similar small image?) and hdimage (and floppies?) with all of the non-free firmware we can legally distribute present.[2] After the initial installation, users can then use the normal CDs and or DVDs to add additional software. Presumably the non-free firmware CD would also contain the packages and archive structure necessary for normal installation of the non-free firmware containing packages. I'd think that an extra 600Mx3 (or however many architectures need non-free firmware) wouldn't be a huge deal for our cdimage mirrors. Ideally, such a CD would be marked as "unofficial" or similar to indicate that it contains non-free firmware, but it could be linked and distributed as normal. Don Armstrong 1: -vote really is the wrong list to discuss this on; Cc'ing debian-cd so knowledgeable people there can tell me I'm on crack. 2: We could make the larger images too, I guess, but there's no reason why you couldn't just load the packages from the normal set of media. -- Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. -- W. Churchill http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
