Dapper snapshot ISO and complete repository collection for download (was: So, we're up to 180MB in updates.)

[Robert Entner]

On 7/14/06, Patrick Drechsler <patrick at pdrechsler.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry for cross-posting. But I thought this might be
> interesting for users as well as developers. If there is a better
> place to post this feature request to, do not hesitate in setting
> a correct follow-up.
>
> Christofer C. Bell wrote on 14 Jul 2006 14:21:22 MET:
>
> > On 7/14/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Turns out though that, starting from a new CD, we're up to
> >> 180MB of updates right after installation.
>
> I also second the idea of having up-to-date CD and DVD ISOs
> available for download. This is very useful for installing Ubuntu
> on an offline computer which will be online at some point, but
> with a low bandwidth connection (ie dial-up).
>
> It would also be useful to have current DVD-ISO snapshots of the
> complete repository (universe, multiverse, restricted, etc)
> available for download.
>
> For later I have only found this:
>
> <URL:http://cargol.net/~ramon/ubuntu-dvd-en>
>
> These are obviously not up-to-date since they are distributed as
> torrents.
>
> But at least I can install more software than just using the
> DVD-ISO provided by the Ubuntu website.
>
>
> On a side note: I couldn't find anything on the Ubuntu homepage
> about ordering Ubuntu-DVD-repository-collections. Is this
> possible (even if they are not up-to-date)? I will be needing to
> install Ubuntu with many different programs from
> multiverse/universe on a new machine while only having occasional
> internet-cafe access the web.

I have been looking for such DVDs for a while already. I found two
online shops which seem to sell exactly these DVDs:
http://www.iso-top.info/oxid.php/sid/x/shp/oxbaseshop/cl/details/cnid/26c42e216eb11b7b5.74670739/anid/c39446739ea3c6326.28645889
http://www.callacd.com/oxid.php/sid/x/shp/oxbaseshop/cl/details/cnid/-/anid/6d9426b9d2ec05139.55077372/Ubuntu-Universe-DVDs/

I am not sure if Ramon's instructions
(http://cargol.net/~ramon/ubuntu-dvd-en) include the latest security
fixes. Isn't there a nice HowTo in the Ubuntu-Wiki?

Best regards,
Robert