Re: Please lets generate 100 GB images for DB-XL
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:14:45AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> one single disc can fir entire Debian in it. Or one flash disk of 128 gig
> capacity.
> --
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
Even with a current Debian mirror on my desk: generating a 16GB .iso from
jigdo files and checking it takes some time - up to 1/2 hour. There's a law
of diminishing returns here - it will take three or four hours to generate
one image (and no, we won't produce that premade because it will take too much
space on mirrors).
Why stop at 128G - you can now get 2TB flash disks relatively cheaply... and
then you run into problems of copying / one potential bad spot ruining a large
transfer. It's infeasible.
If you _really_ want all of Debian on one disk - use jigdo to create the DVD
images and copy them all to one disk - you'll have all the packages and
use apt-cdrom to add them all into a cache - Or just create a mirror and copy
that to a larger disk. A _full_ Debian mirror - all architectures / for all
stages of release is 1.3TB and debian-cd for the current release (10.7 today)
for all architectures is 216G - so a 2G external drive would hold it all.
Note: Debian 10.8 should release tomorrow: some sizes may change but the delta
is unlikely to be significant in total
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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