Bug#1011343: WISHLIST: Offical ALL-IN-ONE images?
Hi Arne,
Just fyi, archive.debian.org or a mirror site has a copy of the distros you have lost a long with the rest of the official Debian releases.
Mike Hosken
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> On 24/05/2022, at 00:09, sp007@caiway.net wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 May 2022 13:33:02 +0800
> Zhang Boyang <zhangboyang.id@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Indeed, I admit super-big-iso is a crazy idea, and a local mirror is
>> more useful in most cases. I think there is a few special cases that a
>> super-big-iso might be more useful.
>>
>> 1) Computers / Virtual Machines isolated from public internet or have no
>> network at all. It is convenient to have such an ISO to install software
>> on demand. A single file is much more convenient than setting up a local
>> mirror. It's also easy to manage or verify integrity, if frequent
>> updates are not needed.
>>
>> 2) Archival purposes. If someone (in future, for example, in 2042) want
>> to install a very old debian system, he/she may grab the big ISO and all
>> he/she need is that single file. Although it's not easy to grab the file
>> in far future, but I guess there is always someone crazy enough to
>> archive all files, isn't it? :P
>>
>
> Hi Zhang!
>
> A very good idea!
>
> I have local repositories mirrorred with debmirror, all versions.
> Suddenly I found my archives of the old distributions were (almost) empty.
>
> bo is lost
> potato is lost
> sarge is lost
> etch is lost
> lenny is lost
>
> Upstream was deleted and debmirror, well, just mirrored them.
>
> I spend several hours to find intact repositories for them globally, did not succeed.
>
> So having another way of keeping debian history for future generations is a very good idea in my opinion!
>
> Arne
>
>
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