Re: no more regular installations CDs for lenny?

[Ronny Aasen <ronny@skolelinux.org>]

Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently we have two types of CDs for lenny(-test) (plus DVDs):
>
> - a amd64-i386-powerpc-CD which is a netinstall CD
> - three arch-specific CDs which used to install Debian Edu without network,
>   but dont work without network nowadays. According to Vagrant a main+
>   thinclientserver downloads 1.1G, so there is not really room to trim 
>   that down to work from CD.
>
> So I would suggest to just drop the arch-specific CDs, as they dont provide 
> much benefits. Even poor schools should have one DVD-drive by now (and we 
> should IMO rather get usbstick-installs working than wasting time on such 
> CDs) or can use the netinstall CD, because they are behind a proxy.
>
> What do you think? 
>
>
> regards,
> 	Holger
>   
I agree completely, it will release resources for doing the other 
builds, perhaps more frequently. Reduce the complexity of the build 
environment. And the workload of the build admins.

Ronny Aasen