This does NOT go towards making a good impression :-(

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-04-01 20:28 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 2013-04-01 15:48 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:

>>> I thought that I would install a copy of 12.04 LTS.
>> ...
>>> Wot a waste of download quota and time as well as a perfectly good
>>> DVD :-( .

>> Just a couple of several reasons why I mostly only ever do HTTP installs.

> The files I downloaded were HTTP downloads and not FTP downloads.

For an HTTP installation one does not download a 4.4G DVD iso or even a 700M 
CD iso before beginning installation. It requires prior downloading as little 
as two files:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/NetbootInstallFromInternet

or at most a 30M CD iso

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/

cf. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Network_installation

The key characteristic of HTTP installation is only files to initialize 
installation and files to actually be installed ever get downloaded. If you 
are only ever going to install a particular release once, it's a big 
bandwidth saver.
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