Valaki Valahol wrote: > I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new > distro contains more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on > the DVD image download page I can download only 3 DVD ISO > images... How can that be ?
All of the DVDs images are available. It is only that Debian is not hosting them as iso images on their download site. There are 10 DVD images for amd64 for example. All are available if you want them. But only the most common first three are hosted on the Debian mirror. But only a very unusually rare number of people will need any of the higher numbered DVD images. I assume this is an academic question of yours as to why the images are not available? It is very unusual to need those images. It is a problem of mirror site disk space and bandwidth. Mirror sites do not have infinite disk space nor infinite bandwidth. There is a cost to everything. At some point there isn't enough space nor bandwidth nor the associated actual cost of hosting them. Mirrors would stop hosting Debian if it grew without bounds. Therefore compromises must be made. The very little used images are not hosted. It is very unusual for anyone to need or to use those images. However they are available and you can create them for yourself very easily. > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me > then simply downloading it from http of ftp... If you desire any or all of the 10 DVD set for amd64 then they are available for very easy creation using jigdo-lite. Here is an example. This is not much more difficult. This is very easy. Really! # apt-get install jigdo-file $ mkdir jigdo-stuff $ cd jigdo-stuff $ jigdo-lite --noask http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/jigdo-dvd/debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo ...lots of output and some minutes of time... OK: Checksums match, image is good! $ ls -ldog debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 3998007296 May 8 12:39 debian-7.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso Very easy! I did the above as I wrote this response to verify that the process was exactly as I cut and pasted it. (I also needed to make a disk image for my own purposes so it was convenient to do.) The amount of time to download the DVD will depend upon the speed of your network connection. It could take a while! But that would also be true of a full image. Jigo caches the files in process and so may be restarted efficiently if it is stopped and started again. > Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in jigdo format ? I hope that many vendors will make the full set of DVDs available. But it is very soon since the release. Vendors will need time to get set up for physical production and distribution of media. http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ As to your questions about 6.0.7 I see things have moved after the release of 7.0. I will look and see what I can find about where it moved to. It may be betwixt and between for the moment. Bob
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