On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:13:10PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a > >dial-up connection. > > > >As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it > >convenient to have a complete distro on a single device. > > > >I've queried the company I've been buying the DVDs from with no > >response. > > That's a shame. I've been selling CDs and DVDs for years, and in the > last couple of years I've had folks ask me for more-or-less complete > dumps of the archive onto USB hard drives and similar. I'm happy to > oblige - it's not much effort, and these days it's easier to ship a > USB stick or hard drive than a stack of 10 DVDs. This also solves the > package signature problem. > > That *doesn't* yet work as a bootable installable disk, but it's not > too hard to fix that side. It should be possible to play with things a > little to turn a netinst CD image and a mirror into a larger bootable > thing, though. Feel free to sunmit a wishlist bug against the > debian-cd package and I'll see what I can do. Patches even more > welcome! > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com > Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1wgwfk-0003pt...@mail.einval.com
Blu-Ray .iso is bootable if you DD it to a stick. Double density BD would be ~32GB and fit on one stick ... I did try this when Wheezy was first released AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140220214249.ga5...@galactic.demon.co.uk
