Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2008 5:57 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Franz Pop wrote:
> >
> > > This is a known issue that _has_ already been fixed, but only  
> > > when new
> > > images will be built, which has been delayed because of hardware
> > > issues
> > > with the machine that does that.
> >
> > Is this the reason why the installer iso's for 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 are
> > delayed?
> >
> > Any idea when they will be available?
>
> Do you actually need a full set, or is the machine you're installing
> on connected to a network in some way?  If the latter is true, you
> might want to look into the netinst CD, which is much smaller and more
> bandwidth friendly.  And once you get installed, you might want to
> look into debtorrent to ease the load on the mirrors.
>
> You can find info on the netinst CD at
> <URL:http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/>, and you can learn more about
> debtorrent at <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent>.

I'd be happy with a working businesscard or netinst install CD for  
each of the new releases (4.0r3 and 3.1r7).

The issue is not bandwidth.  It's simple availability...

Rick