Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?
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AJ wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:59:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst)
>> ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set
>> ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set
>> (total 353 CDs, 51 DVDs, 426 GB)
>
>Bluray image? Apparently there's been a winner in the format wars,
>and we could probably fit an entire arch on a single disc...
Yeah, that would be cool. When somebody gets the time to work on it
and test the output. :-)
>Should we be counting a live CD/DVD/BD image in there too?
Probably, yes. I looked into live CDs for etch, but had problems. I
should be looking into that again for lenny.
>Is it possible to do a javascript implementation of jigdo, so we could
>reasonably just publish a list of the files that need to go on most of
>the CDs instead of the entire iso images? If you can download an image
>via jigdo just by clicking in your browser, that'd seem like we could
>rely on jigdo much more heavily than we have.
Ooh, now that's a cute idea. :-) I'll add that as a SoC suggested
project right now.
>How many different boot images do we have these days? We used to have
>a different boot image on each of the first N CDs, do we still do that?
No, we gave up on that quite a while ago.
>Is there really a lot of value in the netinst image, versus the business
>card? You're going to be downloading stuff anyway, so the only difference
>I can see is if your system can download once you've got base installed,
>but can't from the installer. Would it be simpler just to expect that
>class of people to grab a full CD/DVD image (and thus have more than just
>base available once they've rebooted and are trying to get net working)?
The netinst is much more likely to be useful longer-term; you have a
minimal but useable base system from the CD, with nothing further
required. If (for example) there has been another point release or d-i
update since your businesscard image was created it may break...
>At a bare minimum:
>
> - installer - downloadable (business card)
> - installer+base - jigdo-only? (netinst)
> - CD - disk 1 downloadable, disk 2+ jigdo-only
> - DVD - disk 1 downloadable, disk 2+ jigdo-only
> - BD - one image jigdo-only
>
>That's 25MB + 650MB + 4GB of images per-arch, for about 61GB in total,
>plus a whole bunch of jigdo images (about 500?).
Yup.
>Is it possible to create a jigdo image without creating the full
>ISO? ie, to go from a list of files you want on the ISO straight to a
>jigdo template without the intervening step of actually copying all the
>files around?
Oh, absolutely. That's one of the biggest changes I made in
debian-cd/mkisofs to improve performance. However... if we want to
continue providing torrent downloads (which are very popular, I
understand) then we do still need to make the full images too.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray
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