On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:43:41AM +0000, Enrique Zanardi wrote: [..] > > Let's face it from another POV. > Our distribution is really big (and growing exponentially). > We are making it too hard for our distributors (mirror sites and CD > makers) to distribute the whole thing. We are also making it harder to > our users to find the needle they are searching in our big "packagestack". > We should be developing ways to help FTP mirror sites administrators and CD > makers to carry partial "specialized" mirrors, excluding some sections > without breaking the whole thing. [..] Indeed this is a problem not just for CD vendors. Early next month CVALE (local user group) is going to have an installfest in Stockton. Debian may very well NOT be really well supported at this event unless people bring machines with net cards or want to install from my CDs. You see, Redhat and SuSE are available for $1.99 a copy. Debian is more expensive becasue it's just bigger. We're asking people for $5 to cover the costs (which will include pizza and sodas) The CDs are going to be ordered from CheapBytes most likely. So far all they have for slink is a $7 main/source set (which contains KDE and 2.2.x on the 2nd source CD) I'm trying to see what I can do about this to make sure Debian is represented at this thing but this kind of problem is almost certainly NOT unique. And the bigger Debian gets the harder it's going to be to do things like this. I would suggest we work on building a "lite" image for potato or even one for slink. I'd personally like to see a CD which doubled as a mini installation and as a drop-in sort of thing which eats maybe 30-40 megs on a windoze partition as a filesystem image with /usr being on cdrom. I believe someone or other has this sort of thing done or in the works, but I haven't seen anybody talking about images which can be grabbed off the cdimage server and pressed. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Overfiend> against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain
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