Proposal for solving CD Size problems

Mgr. Peter Tuharsky tuharsky at misbb.sk
Mon Oct 2 08:37:09 BST 2006


> A DVD image can also be significantly harder to download. While CD 
> images are a reasonable size, even downloading a 2 GB DVD image would 
> cause some of my internet connections to go over their daily caps. In 
> addition, not everyone has 2-5 GB free to store the image, whereas I 
> would expect that most people have 70MB.
> 

Not only that. Current versions of Squid proxy cannot handle files 
larger that 2GB. Current versions of Samba server are unable to handle 
storing such a large file. Many ftp and web clients have this limit too.

Summary: there are too much possible difficulties on client's side. The 
image should be SMALLER than 2GB.

Peter



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