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    Phoronix: Debian To Stop Spinning New CD ISOs

    It was decided at this year's DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward...

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  • #2
    Blu-rays?! Is Debian really that fat?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by sabun View Post
      Blu-rays?! Is Debian really that fat?
      No, but the create cd-s/dvd-s with most of the packet from repo so you can easy use debian offline.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by sabun View Post
        Blu-rays?! Is Debian really that fat?
        Debian, at least in the past, made their entire package repository available offline in the form of ISO's. I can easily see that needing a blu-ray
        All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.

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        • #5
          Seems like a decent plan to me. As long as the net install remains CD compatible then I have no complaints. I figure a single DVD should be able to support the bare minimum of all major desktop environments, though I think it'd make sense for the main install disc only support GTK2 environments while having a separate disc for all GTK3-depentent packages, and another disk for all Qt4 + Qt5 packages. That's just me though, I'm sure it won't be done that way.
          Last edited by schmidtbag; 15 September 2015, 11:53 AM.

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          • #6
            Meh, optical media seems rather dead if you ask me.

            Many computers don't even have optical drives.
            I prefer to install over USB with a flash memory stick.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by uid313 View Post
              Meh, optical media seems rather dead if you ask me.

              Many computers don't even have optical drives.
              I prefer to install over USB with a flash memory stick.
              Right, but how do you usually install over USB? A lot of the time, that's done using unetbootin with existing ISOs. When using that, DVD images can make life a lot easier (compared to CD). Anyway, there are ways to boot ISOs directly from USB drives too, which is what I do.
              Last edited by schmidtbag; 15 September 2015, 02:09 PM.

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              • #8
                dd is your friend to make usb bootable

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by crash View Post
                  dd is your friend to make usb bootable

                  Yeah I've just been DD'ing Linux ISO's to usb for a while now and they usually just work

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                  • #10
                    I've always just use the netinstall images. Really not much point to downloading a 4GB DVD when you're either only doing a server install or a single desktop environment. In the end it makes for much less of a download and your fresh install is guaranteed to be the latest packages and not needing to do an apt-get upgrade afterwards.

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