On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > *BAD THINKING!* > > OK, it is a hot button issue with me as I'm on dialup. Causes me to > > wait until DVD's are available from vendors. > > I've a physically small install of squeeze and I seem to recall > > loading something from DVD 8 or 9. > > It's a certain company on west coast that's notorious for telling > > customer what they should want. > > [Primary reason I no longer purchase their product.] > > {There's also a Debian based distro which is falling into that > > pattern. } > > Well jigdo is still there as an option. > > So no it isn't bad thinking. It is entirely correct for most people and > for the few that have slow or no connection available, there is a more > efficient method (for the mirror network) to handle the rare person taht > wants actual media.
Unless you want to download on one system, burn the DVD and take it to another with no (or unbearable slow) internet downloading the DVDs is not a good option. Simply updating directly will download far less. And if you want to update more than one system then use a http proxy or apt cacher so every common package is only downloaded once. On the other hand if you wait a bit and then buy e.g. DVD images 1-3 you can update 95% of your system from that and download the remaining 5% over even a slot internet. That is probably better than spending money on a full 10 disk DVD set. Check which packages you have installed and on which DVDs they are to see which images are worth buying. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130508144141.GB17923@frosties