Fwd: [sf-lug] Re: sf-lug Debian Sarge CD

[jim stockford]

Hey Geoff! Here's Rick's response (below).

(I like buying CDs rather than suffer through
downloading. For most people, I'd say
listen to Rick rather than listen to crufty
old jim.)


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> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Date: January 19, 2006 2:09:18 PM PST
> To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Re: sf-lug Debian Sarge CD
>
> Quoting jim stockford (jim at well.com):
>
>>    Anybody know a store where Geoff can walk in and
>> buy the latest Debian (Sarge)? I'd like to know, too.
>
> Why not get a "netinst" CD image for the cost of a mere 125MB or so
> download -- such as Kenshi Muto's: http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/2005/11/26
>
> See also:  "Installers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/
> (page needs to be updated, now that 3.1 "sarge" is the stable branch)
>
> Given Internet access for package retrieval, in the general case, there
> doesn't seem a whole lot of point to either buying or downloading 14 
> CDs
> or 2 DVDs.  You're not going to install most of that, and you'd be
> replacing a lot of it with updates from the Internet, anyway.  So, why
> not start with 125MB of installation media, rather than 9GB?
>
> (By the way, Geoff forgot to specify the architecture:  alpha, amd64,
> arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc.  amd64
> was unofficial as of the 3.1r0 and 3.1r1a releases; the other 11 are
> official.  He _probably_ means either i386 or amd64.)
>
>
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