Plans for DVD-ROM image?

[Nigel Wade]

Scott Burns wrote:
> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Scott Burns wrote:
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>>> Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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>>>> It takes a silly long time to download a dvd iso over your average 
>>>> home broadband connection.
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>>> How exactly does it take longer than downloading the ISOs?
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>> I need three of the six isos currently to do a reasonable installation.
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>> It would follow that that's ~1.8GB instead of the ~3gb that it would 
>> be if the srpms were on the same disk.
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>    Disk space is cheap.  No reason, given one DVD ISO, not to have two, 
> one with the source, and one without.
> 

It might be reasonably cheap on a single system, but think about all those 
mirror servers out there. They'd have to store the 6 CD ISOs, the "small" 
DVD ISO and the full DVD ISO.

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