On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:14:45AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > one single disc can fir entire Debian in it. Or one flash disk of 128 gig > capacity. > -- > -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
Even with a current Debian mirror on my desk: generating a 16GB .iso from jigdo files and checking it takes some time - up to 1/2 hour. There's a law of diminishing returns here - it will take three or four hours to generate one image (and no, we won't produce that premade because it will take too much space on mirrors). Why stop at 128G - you can now get 2TB flash disks relatively cheaply... and then you run into problems of copying / one potential bad spot ruining a large transfer. It's infeasible. If you _really_ want all of Debian on one disk - use jigdo to create the DVD images and copy them all to one disk - you'll have all the packages and use apt-cdrom to add them all into a cache - Or just create a mirror and copy that to a larger disk. A _full_ Debian mirror - all architectures / for all stages of release is 1.3TB and debian-cd for the current release (10.7 today) for all architectures is 216G - so a 2G external drive would hold it all. Note: Debian 10.8 should release tomorrow: some sizes may change but the delta is unlikely to be significant in total All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater
