Saving space on the DVD

[Chuck Anderson]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:25:31AM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 19:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >> > Alternative: dual/double layer DVDs have come down in price a good bit.
> >> > /me ducks and runs
> >>
> >> More image flavors and sizes involves concerns for mirrors et al.
> >> But how about a jigdo-only (and torrent too?) reconstructable image
> >> of either a second dvd, or a dual-layer sized big dvd?  Or even of
> >> 3x dual-layer dvd images to hold it all on "canonical" media images.
> >
> > Jigdo is a usability disaster.  Our users have a hard enough time just
> > getting a direct iso download and burning it successfully, to try and
> > throw jigdo at them would be... painful.
> 
> 
> I would like some further explanation on this opinion of yours.

I for one agree with Jesse.  I used to be a big Jigdo supporter.  In 
theory, it is a great idea.  In practice, it is such a pain for even 
an experienced person to use (me) that I most often just download 
.iso's or do a network install.  For example, last time I helped 
someone install Fedora 10, we just ended up doing a network install 
which automatically grabbed the updates repo from a mirror, rather 
than going through the pain of trying to download the updated Fedora 
Unity 10 media using jigdo.  If pyjigdo ever got anywhere, maybe 
things would be better.

Another idea would be to put CD-sized iso images on a DVD iso or 
dual-layer DVD iso.