Re: 2.1 CD's for the linuxworld expo
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>Previously Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Wow! That's organised!
>
>Indeed. I was unpleasantly surprised since I hoped to be able to get them
>to donate their entire stock. On the other hand having pre-2.1 CD's will
>be next cool as well.
>
>> I shouldn't think there'll be a problem with that. What set do we want?
>> Single CD (easiest, I'd guess), 2 CDs (main binary + contrib) or 4 CDs
>> (full)? I'd push for the single-CD option for giveaways, personally - we
>> get more people that way.
>
>Why not let them choose? Or is the single-CD different from the first CD
>of a CD-set?
At the moment it is, but the current development version of slink_cd fixes
this. I was going to wait a little longer for some m68k/alpha patches
before releasing, but I can see this may be difficult. If I get the
pre-1.08 to you, can you make some new images Phil?
Actually, while I think about it - are we just looking for i386, or do we
want to do other arches too? They're a little bit behind...
>The important thing is to have the Cd-image somewhere where it is not
>overwritten for a couple of days so cheapbytes gets the chance to download
>and burn it.
Of course.
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