Bug#420716: Please make exact iso sizes more visible
Package: cdimage.debian.org Version: Severity: wishlist Please publish the file sizes of isos somewhere clearly visible, preferably (together with their checksums) on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ Use case: I bought Debian DVDs from a vendor. Of course I wanted to test their integrity and ran md5sum /dev/cdrom The reported checksum did not match the one listed on the subpages of http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ The reason, of course, was, that the isos are padded when written to the medium. So I had to truncate the content of /dev/cdrom first to the correct size. But it was a real pain in the ankle to find out which that was: Only the last browser available on my system (links) was able to give me file sizes that were not rounded to the next KB or MB. And that was only when pointing it to an FTP mirror. I think this use case should be a standard one and http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ could have clear instructions, including file sizes, on how to check purchased CDs/DVDs. (I know there is the checkiso script, but it is outdated and it admits that it does not solve the padding problem.) Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Etch 4.0 Kudos
I am very impressed with my findings with Debian Etch 4.0, and I only burned the install CD this morning! As it turned out, with Etch I need to boot with kernel option acpi=off on my trusty ThinkPad 600E "mobile server". I was impressed that the resulting lilo.conf reflected that option. Ubuntu Server 7.04 was out ahead of Debian Etch... it on the same system does not display the login prompt on the console when it finishes booting, and I checked dselect and Samba is no where to be found! So, Ubuntu might have newer / slicker code, but Debian "just plain works". Once again, Debian gets my vote. Thanks for all the hard work! -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone bought a Linux CD Online?
I am looking at purchaseing Debian from http://globalsoftwaredirect.com or http://www.osdisc.com? Anyone done this before? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Has-anyone-bought-a-Linux-CD-Online--tf3640303.html#a10166255 Sent from the Debian CD mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: too many CD ISOs
Dirk Neumann wrote on 21/04/2007 09:36: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:59:35 -0700 > Matt Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>For the folks that these images are for, the ones far off the internet, I >>have >>no idea how many CD images lenny will require, > > let's remember: Potato required 3 CDs, Woody 7 and Sarge 14 and Etch 21. > Also, we find Woody on 1 DVD, Sarge on 2 and Etch on 3 DVDs. > So Lenny will require 7 DVDs, Lenny+1 14 and Lenny+2 21 DVDs. You can > multiply these numbers with 7, and you will have the count of CD-isos. > (Lenny 49, Lenny+1 98 and Lenny+2 147) You make it look like the growth is exponential when it is in fact rather linear over time. Looking at the number of CDs and the release dates reveals that the growth is between 2.5 and 3.0 CDs/year with an average of little more than 2.7 CDs per year since release of potatoe up to release of etch. So if Lenny releases within a year from Etch, it will have at most 24 CDs or 4 DVDs. If it releases within 24 month after Etch (i.e. by April 8th, 2009), it will have 27 CDs or still 4 DVDs (though only marginally below the barrier for the 5th DVD). Let's assume that the average growth accelerates by one addition CD every second year (year 1: 3 CDs, year 2: 3 CDs, year 3: 4 CDs, year 4: 4 CDs, year 5: 5 CDs and so on), we will have: CDs DVDs April 2008: 24 4 April 2009: 27 4 Lenny? April 2010: 31 5 April 2011: 35 6 Lenny+1? April 2012: 40 6 April 2013: 45 7 Lenny+2? April 2014: 51 8 April 2015: 57 9 Lenny+3? April 2016: 64 10 April 2017: 71 11 Lenny+4? April 2018: 79 12 April 2019: 87 13 Lenny+5? April 2020: 96 15 April 2021: 106 16 Lenny+6? April 2022: 117 18 April 2023: 128 19 Lenny+7? April 2024: 140 21 April 2025: 152 23 Lenny+8? So that would be 71 CDs / 11 DVDs ten years from now. Quite different from your doomsday scenario of Lenny releasing with 49 CDs (which I expect for Lenny+2) and Lenny+2 releasing with 147 CDs (which I expect for Lenny+8). Actually, I don't think at all that the rate will accelerate like that. cu, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
