Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:23:11PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> 
> I don't know, but this has been discussed quite a lotta times in various fora. 
> Users often get stunned by the number of CDs and get confused what to 
> download and what not to. 

Perhaps http://www.debian.org/distrib/ should explicitly say

If you have a decent internet connection, you only need the netinstall 
CD or the first regular CD.  The rest will be downloaded as needed 
and you won't waste bandwidth downloading packages you won't use.

and the netinstall option should be the *first* on the list.  Definitely 
it should be presented before the option of downloading the complete set 
of CDs or DVDs.

THen it should go on to explain:

The other CD's are needed only if you are installing on a machine 
without a decent net connection, and you can install a very 
respectable Debian system using only the first few CDs, which contain 
the most popular packages.  The later CDs in the set contain less 
popular packages.

That said, a list of which CDs contain which packages would still be 
useful.

-- hendrik