Hi On 2016-04-16, georg.becker@web.de wrote: > Hi Debian team, > > I would like to download the images of all DVDs of Debian 8.4.0. [...] > I cannot anticipate what software packages they will need. Therefore > I plan to install a minimalistic version of Debian and give them all > the DVDs so that they can install additional software packages as > they need. Did you consider to just mirror the repository on the target computer's harddisk instead (debmirror makes this rather easy) and to use this local mirror for your sources.list? I don't quite have the numbers available how much space jessie would need for one architecture (mirroring sid amd64+i386+source accumulates to 153 GB at the moment, so my wild guess for one jessie architecture, without source, would be in the 60-70 GB range), but this would be a rather tiny fraction of any spinning HDD made in the last 10 years (at least for any disk >= 120 GB, it would be a reasonable tradeoff), compared to 15-20 DVDs (which will inevitably get lost, get scratched or turn you into a disk jockey, etc. pp.) full of packages barely anyone every needs (at least for DVDs beyond the first 2-3). Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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