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Re: Still no base tarball



On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> 
> [Geez, 3 lists?]
> 
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > nobody has yet provided a convincing argument for putting the
> > > tarball on the CDs.
> > 
> > Of the machines that I get a chance to install Debian on
> [cut]
> >                                  25% don't even have a CD-ROM drive. 
> [cut]
> > So I'd say about 30% of machines I see need the whole base install done
> > from floppies.
> 
> So how does it help to have a 24MB file on the CD?

I would think that would be obvious. It saves about 5 hours of download
time on a 56K modem. It provides a CD archives that matches the FTP
archives, providing least surprise to the user.

Looks like a completeness argument to me...

Luck,

Dwarf
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