Den Friday 11 May 2007 12:05:03 skrev Martin Schmidkunz: > Do we really need md5sums? The medias are checked during installation > anyway.
Good point about the media check, though everyone skips it. I just think broken isos is quite common. It could be nice to discretely inform people that they can actually check for that - and take some steps to reduce the risk (download manager/bittorrent). Maybe link to troubleshooting section is good enough. > > - I fear the way it looks now people with support for 64bit will feel > > they must get the 64bit version. Which is likely to cause them a few > > problems they would not face if they installed the 32bit version. > > Like what? > Honestly if there are problems running 64bit stuff on a 64bit system > then these problems should be reported and we should try to fix them. Little things that are not really fixable by a distributor. - There are more x86-packages. - w32codecs don't work with 64bit players (I believe). Of course you can play almost everything with free codecs these days, but still.. - Java apps such as limewire or azureus tend to cause problems - tarballs compile more often without problems on 32bit I think, - biarch can cause some problems, people must remember to keep 32bit firefox to have working java webplugin. Stuff like that.. Just came up with another idea/suggestion: Could we perhaps recommend a media+method. I think it could be wise to gently push people towards bittorrent DVD download. - reduces risk of broken iso - reduces load on mirrors - no need for add-on cd/manual install of ipw-firmware, java, flash etc. - not many media changes during burning+installation. Of course this requires dvd-burner, good bandwidth and a bittorrent client. But I still think that we should recommend it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
