ISO images of the *whole* Ubuntu archive ?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:09:59PM -0600, Kent Frazier wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:53:46 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > <quote who="Guillaume Duveau">
> > 
> > > I want to install Ubuntu on a iMac which only has a standart 56K
> > > connection... There's already a LOT of cool software on the install ISO,
> > > but I would like to burn a whole set of CDs just like in debian (13 CDs).
> > >
> > > Don't they exist for Ubuntu ? If not are you planning to release some
> > > (let's say for Hoary now) ?
> > 
> > hoary will have a dvd image that includes all of main (ie. our supported
> > packages).
> 
> Hey Jeff.  I have been wondering about this a bit.  Will this also be
> bootable and act as an install disc, or will it just be a repository? 
> In other words, for those of us with broadband and DVD-burners, could
> we get the DVD instead of the CD, or would we need both?

It will be installable.  We can stop talking about it in the future tense,
also, because it already exists. :-)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/weekly-dvd/

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 - mdz