Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's -- vs DVDs

2008-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 09:25:08 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: [...] > Forgive me for writing about this at some length, since I'm faced with > the same dilemma. My goals: I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, > and to this end, I bought three(3) DVDs, instead of thirty(30) CDs. > I also have a n

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's -- vs DVDs

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 09:25:08AM -0400, Alan McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Now comes the sick part: I immediately got a prompt: "Please insert > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20080217-11:31 > into the drive '/cdrom/' and then press enter" ! !

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's -- vs DVDs

2008-03-21 Thread Alan McConnell
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:05:17PM -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote: > On 3/20/08, Tom Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every > > > time I want to install a new package. Is