On Tuesday 02 May 2006 11:19, Michael Schroeder wrote:
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:57:13AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
However, considering that it takes 50 minutes times 5 disks = 4 hours 10 minutes to recreate the 5 CDs, it is worth considering if a lower compression ratio, or an altogether different compression method, would be interesting for us all. Perhaps it would mean 6 CDs, but maybe that is acceptable :-?
Yes, we thought about switching back to gzip instead of bzip2 (gzip is much faster). This would also make the installation a bit faster. But all the rpms are not only on the CDs, but the DVD as well, so that would mean dropping packages from the DVD. Thus we decided against it.
Hey, maybe this is a good question for the community: would it be ok for you if we drop a couple of packages for faster installation?
Cheers, Michael.
For myself, I don't mind a few packages being dropped but it would depend on the packages. How would they be selected for omission? Eddie