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Re: Switching to DVD for Debian Edu



Hi,

I'm late to the party ;)

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:22, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> After months of discussion and contemplation, I've come to realise
> that I believe debian-edu is best served by switching to shipping a
> DVD image.  The reason is that we have spent too much time fighting
> the 700 MiB size limit, and too little time working on the user
> experience.

Full ack.

Just to clarify: the plan is to do this for debian-edu/etch or post-etch?

> Comments, protests?

We should maintain the practice of not excluding schools with no dvd-reader 
and poor connections... (this could mean including a howto "setup a local 
repo from CDs" or something)

> I do not own any DVD burder myself, so I will be unable to create the
> install medium myself.  Is this a problem for more then me?

That's "only" a problem for tests on real hardware, qemu/vbox emulates dvds 
just fine :)


regards,
	Holger

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