On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:06 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
> First, the world is moving towards DVD.
Its interesting having a look round here.
My home boxes have DVD (and thats the preferred method of installation -
a DVD is a good way of moving several days of continuous download over
ADSL).
However at work I see things are somewhat different:-
* Laptops mostly have DVD (read) capability
* Desktops normally have no optical media, if they do have any its
CD-ROM
* Servers, including absolutely current kit from main
manufacturers, have CD-ROM drives. None here have DVD drives
(although a Sun 3500 from 1999 does have DVD capability).
This actually isn't a problem as from my point of view the required
installation kit is a 80MB CD and a network connection.
However I think moving to DVD only is a non starter at this point in
time.
As a mirror admin I would like to have another way of packaging that
does not require me to keep unpacked, CD and DVD images around.
Nigel.
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