From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 19 15: 9:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B85237B542 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA54872; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:09:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:09:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Brian Somers , Brad Knowles , Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs In-Reply-To: <11089.956160392@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > That would not be a simple solution. There are more packaging > problems with this than you've probably ever dealt with since we deal > with CD sets in terms of tens-of-thousands quantities. > > I will continue to explore going to a 6 CD set, but that also means > more work for me on every release so I'm in no particular hurry. :) How about using 80-minute/700MB discs? It would only let you squeeze in another 50MB/disc, but that would mean an extra 200MB for the 4-CD set. Apparently this is what Microsoft and many others have been doing for a while now. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message