On Mar 17, 2004, at 06:26, Nigel Wade wrote:
It might be reasonably cheap on a single system, but think about all those mirror servers out there. They'd have to store the 6 CD ISOs, the "small" DVD ISO and the full DVD ISO.
The DVD-ROM image(s) could be handled the way mirrors currently are. Each mirror pretty much determines what they want to store. The local mirror I use that is run by a friend has terrabytes free and is used to host just about every linux distro, CPAN, emacs, kernel, *BSD, etc.
But all sites aren't so lucky, so many of them don't even carry updates for the distros they do host, and many don't host the network installable directories.
So, space shouldn't be an issue, since the mirror can simply opt NOT to carry the DVD-ROM images.
-David
