200 cylinders is about 140MB. For a one-time per-site-per-version download, that's a nit. I see little reason why that couldn't be made available online for subscribers. Most people download the .iso images anyway, since that is how Novell prefers it, so there's no extra network usage there even if it does amount to 10GB. The skills to support it are the only (possibly) valid objection I see.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:12 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: CMSDDR-format Linux files. Was: SLES10 Install kernelpanic -snip- A completely pruned down Debian instance is about 200 cylinders (the SSL Enabler system is a good example of what you're describing). That's still a lot of data transfer to support, plus the actual ISO images themselves (which, if you use the DVD image (and you really want to) is about 10G). That's still a lot of data transfer to support, plus the actual ISO images themselves (which, if you use the DVD image (and you really want to) is about 10G). It just doesn't scale for them to do it without employing their Akamai infrastructure (and it'd be one more thing they really don't have the skills to support very well). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
