Re: 700 MB media
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Philip Charles wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > > [Richard Atterer]
> > >
> > >>IMHO, definitely - it's been a very long time since I last saw 650
> > >>MB media...
> > >
> > >
> > > It is less then a year ago since debian-edu tried to switch from 650
> > > to 700 MB images, and got reports about CD burners unable to burn the
> > > images. Because of this, debian-edu still make 650 MB images.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > With Steve's whizzy new patch for generating jigdos straight from
> > mkisofs, it all runs fast enough so that we could contemplate generating
> > jigdos for both sizes, as well as business cards & DVDs, say. It's not
> > like extra jigdo versions take up much room.
> >
> > If we do that, CD vendors and home CD burners can chose a size that
> > suits their hardware.
> >
> People like ourselves use Jigdo extensively, but my observation is that
> most people who want to download CDs wait until the images are available.
> I suspect that those who would use Jigdo and who do not have a local
> Debian mirror would opt for a network installation.
>
> Given this I would suggest that we stick to a single CD set.
I agree with this and the current mirror setup can't handle more than one
full set of CDs due to storage space limits on the mirrors (the most
common limit for potential mirrors btw).
The mirror setup can handle a fairly large set of jigdos though, as long
as only one of them is labeled as "current" via a symlink (the mirroring
script in place for the push mirrors depends on this).
/Mattias Wadenstein
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