[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? Peter