Re: What about DVD?
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> i think a dvd would be great. but you cna only boot one architecture
> automaticaly. so you would either need one dvd per architecture or
> boot all non-i386 architectures via bootdisk or so. that´s not good.
Well, I really don't know anything about that, but I seem to remember someone
saying that DVD might have a built-in multi-boot capability. Might be worth
investigating.
> price (if you do 5000 cd sets/dvd):
> 0.71 dm for a cd, 2.66 dm for a dvd-5, 3.73 dm for a dvd-9
>
> so, at that volume a dvd is cheaper. and i didn´t even consider jewelbox,
> tray, label, ... glas master is included in that price.
Okay, but this volume is something that only a major vendor would order.
And AFAIK they are not interested (at least at this time).
>
> hmm. 20000 people expected to be at linuxtag 2000...
Usual practice is to give away only Binary-1 CDs, which would cost 14200 dm
instead of 53200 dm for DVDs. I think a sponsor for the former is easier to
find ;-)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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