Re: About installation DVD's
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:49:12 -0700
Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> OK, Rupesh. Here's the process:
>
> 1) Debian releases the downloadable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk images. For
> reasons already covered, they release the first three DVD as ".iso"
> images and the rest as '.jigdo" templates. (As you have pointed out,
> this doesn't help someone like yourself in a place without high-speed
> internet access.)
>
> 2) Vendors download the images and burn them to CD/DVD/Blu-ray disks
> and make them available for sale. Some vendors only use the first
> three DVD images -- either on the assumption that "that's all you
> really need" or simply being unwilling/unable to use jigdo to get the
> rest. (This may help you, if you can get by with the first three DVDs
> -- as seems likely given that you are a new Debian user. Or you may
> really need all 10 DVDs -- I don't know and you haven't said.
> However see below regarding international sales…)
>
> 3) Some vendors don't bother with the paperwork for doing
> international sales. (No help for you here.)
>
> 4) A few vendors do the full job. They download/jigdo the full 10-DVD
> set, burn them, and make them available for international sale. This
> takes time. Be patient.
>
> As previously noted, there is a list of vendors at
> http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
>
> You'll probably find at least one of them who has gotten all the way
> to step 4, or is working on it as we speak. But you'll have to dig
> for it -- visit each vendor's web site and see what they have
> available. Your email address doesn't tell me where you live, so I
> can't do the research for you.
>
> Does this help?
OSDisc.com sells all 10 DVDs as well as live discs and has free
worldwide shipping.. :)
http://www.osdisc.com/products/debian
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