Got Gutsy DVDs?

[Derek Broughton]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:50:10PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> 
>> > I would be interested to know *why* you use it.  The cases you
>> > described (installing on many computers, and on computers not belonging
>> > to you) don't explain why the CD is unsuitable for you.
>> > 
>> > I would be surprised if the DVD actually saves you bandwidth over the
>> > CD, given that the DVD essentially contains two copies of every default
>> > application (one in pre-installed form, and one in .deb form).
>> 
>> That doesn't seem so odd - I'm sure I downloaded at least a couple of
>> hundred MB more files after installing the CD the last time.  It would
>> save considerably if those extra files only needed to be downloaded once
>> when you were installing to _many_ computers, but I really don't see why
>> he can't have his own mirror.
> 
> The DVD is about 3.5 gigabytes larger than the CD, so one would need to
> install an extra 200M worth of packages over 17 times in order to make up
> the difference.

Yeah?  So I would have figured that you only start worrying about this sort
of thing when you're administering that many computers, anyway :-)  
-- 
derek