[ Please note Reply-To: to debian-cd... ] Hi folks,
It's time for me to ask the question again - what CDs and DVDs will we find useful enough that we should make them for lenny? The reason I'm asking is that we're looking at a *huge* number of discs, and it's not clear that they'll all be useful. I've just finished building the full set for lenny d-i beta 1 (hence why I've been so quiet the last few days), and what we're looking at *now* is quite scary: 2 small CDs per arch (business card, netinst) ~30 CDs per arch for a full CD set ~4 DVDs per arch for a full DVD set (total 353 CDs, 51 DVDs, 426 GB) Things are only going to get bigger: we're about to add armel to the mix, and I'm expecting that we're going to grow further yet in terms of the number and sizes of packages before we release lenny. That leaves us with a huge amount of data for us to build and host, and for our mirrors to handle too. So... 1. Is it worth making full sets of CDs at all? Can we rely on people having a net connection or being able to use DVDs if they want *everything*? 2. Is it worth producing all the CDs/DVDs/whatever for all the architectures? 3. For some arches, should we just provide the first couple of CDs and a full set of DVDs? This is a bit of a compromise option - if a given machine will not boot from DVD, but can boot from CD and get the rest of its packages from a network share then all's good. 4. ??? - what else would be a sane option? Suggestions/comments/complaints - please let us know what you'd prefer. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]