On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:24:36PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: >On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>What I'd like us to do is create several image sizes for each arch: > >Sounds good to me. > >> 1 business card image (ISO, maybe jigdo too) >> >> 1 netinst image (ISO, maybe jigdo too) > >Really, what good would jigdo do here? If you have such slow connection >that downloading the data directly from a cd mirror would be painful, what >are the chances that you have an up-to-date debian mirror locally? Good point. >> 13 or 14 650 MB CDs (jigdos on the main cdimage site, with some >> mirrors carrying the full ISOs) >> >> 2 4.7 GB DVDs (ditto) > >I am expecting to carry one of those on cdimage.d.o for user convenience >and at least the push-triggered mirrors, right now I'm going for the CDs. >Any reasons for carrying DVDs instead? I'd expect many more people to be using DVDs now than used to. In terms of the split, I don't know what the proportion of CD to DVD users is. However, I would _definitely_ recommend making the i386 and src DVDs available at least. DVDs may not be very useful for most arches, but... >I'll see if I can dig up some more storage to carry both, I don't have a >good hardware donor lined up right now though. What storage do you use at the moment? >> 1 8.5 GB DL DVD image (probably jigdo only) > >Seems resonable, since this would be of interest to vendors mostly from >what I have seen from the discussion above. Exactly, yes. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...
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