[arch] Proposal: Remove arch-0.x.iso from ArchLinux

[Michel Di Croci]

Hi! :)

Could we not propose a bittorrent solution or p2p one. Maybe if more users here could spare a bit of his U/D bandwith... 

It's just a proposition and I'm not sure it's realisable... 

Michel


--- Maik Jablonski <maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
Hi,

Marcus Schopen set up an arch-mirror at ftp.archlinux.de two weeks ago. A look 
at the logs shows, that 65 % of the overall traffic (read: costs) is caused 
by people downloading arch-0.5.iso.

In the forums I've seen many threads where people run into problems installing 
arch-0.5 from cd (with all whistles and blows like X, KDE, etc.pp.) and then 
try to upgrade it via net. The usual tip is: Only install base and then 
upgrade via net.

Just an example: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=14872)

This is a silly situation: First people download a large ISO-image ("just to 
be sure to have all things they need to install, but sometimes less is 
more"), install X, KDE, etc.pp. from it, then run pacman -Syu, downloading 
nearly all packages as updated packages again, only to run into problems.

My proposal: Let us drop the Arch-Full-ISO-Image and let us promote the 
Arch-Base-ISO in favour of that. The full ISO costs bandwith and ends up in 
people complaining about problems when updating.

We should better provide a simple howto for people who need the packages on CD 
for offline-installations. Something like: Howto rsync a package repository, 
burn this packages on CD and install additional packages from a local 
repository.

What do you think?

Cheers, Maik

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