Hoary DVD or multiple installation CDs (for main + more)

[steffen]

I have seen some discussion on this board over the last months about creating a Ubuntu DVD or multiple CDs for download, to be able to install Gnomebaker, Muine, K3B, etc. for people who don't have the bandwidth to upgrade.

Anyone know anything about the plans for this?

[talkingwires]

The team has released ISOs of the Hoary repositories that fit on a DVD-R. You can find them here (http://torrent.ubuntu.com/dvd/20050407.3/). I'm in the same boat as you: I either use dialup or lug my ancient laptop down to the local coffeeshop and use their wireless connection. But I can't afford a DVD burner either, so I'm kinda stuck. I've seen sites on the Internet that offer to download the files you want, burn them to a disc, and mail them to you, but I don't remember who they were. Anyone out there know of a company that does something like that?

[UbuWu]

So far there have been only people talking about doing this (including me), still nobody has done it yet as far as I know.

See this thread as well: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=22620

[c_dog]

Man, Give a few days. Hoary has only been out for two days.I have the say that DVD releases are nice. They have a good chunk of a ll the fun stuff from the repositories as well as the putting together the Ubuntu, Kubutu and the Live CDs all on one disk. Well worth the trouble get one (or all - i386, amd64, or PPC if you can use) in any way possible.

[steffen]

The DVD is only half-full. Anyone know where to find a good guide on how to add more software to the DVD?

It's possible to mount the DVD ISO-image and use it as a local CD-repository, right? Just mount ISO standard way as per Ubuntuguide, and add in Synaptic...?

[thane]

I got this letter a couple days ago from Benjamin Mako Hill.

It appears that they will be putting out a dvd soon. I do like, however, the suggestion on this thread to make not only a dvd available, but also multiple cd iso's available for those of us who do not have a dvd burner or who can only download cd size iso's. Would someone like to make this suggestion to the Ubuntu team, they are probably getting sick of me by now? :-|

Anyway, here's the letter:

In the next couple weeks, we're going to start offering a Hoary
Hedgehog DVD for sale. There are currently not plans to offer a
Kubuntu release.

You can keep checking http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org or your can
subscribe to our announce and news lists here: http://lists.ubuntu.com

We will first announce the DVD on one of those two places.

Regards,
Mako

[UbuWu]

That's great news... :grin:

Does for sale mean you will have to pay for it?

[steffen]

Does for sale mean you will have to pay for it?

Probably be a free download. Canonical has promised never to charge for Ubuntu in any way, so I can't see how they could even charge for a DVD - although I wouldn't mind ;)

[UbuWu]

I hope it will be completely filled with great stuff, and not leaving half the space empty as in the downloadable iso with obly main.

[Krash1201]

thane,

just for clarification, this dvd .iso will be a full version of 5.04, not the combination live /install version .iso that has already been released? Any reason why not Kubuntu?

Thanks

Drew