Re: Dual-layer DVD jigdo files?

[roach <robert_spencer@mighty.co.za>]

On Wednesday 06 July 2005 15:38, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I never got around to it, in the end. To make sarge/i386 fit on a DL
> DVD will involve removing quite a large number of packages, and
> sarge/source is even bigger.

Why?

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/

debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.iso 08-Jun-2005 12:07  4.4G
debian-31r0a-i386-binary-2.iso 08-Jun-2005 12:22  4.1G

4.4+4.1=8.5 Doesn't it?

> The main reason I was trying to do the DL DVD was for commercial
> distributors, but in the end the interested people all said they'd
> prefer to use 2 DVDs instead.

I'm interested because of the cost of courier fees. I'd like to keep the 
weight down and I haven't found a local source of Double Sided DVD's.

> If there is enough interest, I might be talked into creating some DL
> images, even so.

What kind of interest do you need?

BTW, when do the brakes go on?

Woody=1,
Sarge=2,
Etch=4,
8,16,32,64...

When I saw the name "binary" I though that's what they are, not how they 
breed. :-)

-- 
Robert "roach" Spencer
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa