On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:50:57 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote: > > Hi Debian! > > Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That > just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called > "third" world) from downloading them Those 13 CDs will provide binary packages for the *entire* Debian package set; only a few CDs, at most (and possibly only one), will be needed to do a base install on an individual machine; any other packages you needed could be obtained via network, as usual, with a lot less need for dload time than fetching all 13 CDs. If the packages are going to be roughly sorted through the CDs based on popularity (as the notice suggested), then your chances of needing anything at all off a CD drop as you go back through the CD set, making network install of the remaining packages much more sensible than downloading the CDs they're on. So unless you're doing a large number of heterogenous installs, I wouldn't think you'd need to download all the CDs, or even most of them. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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