Re: Copy to a CD and distribute to students

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:19:52AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Andrew Markebo wrote:
>> Ok sorry, should have written a bit clearer.. *sigh* why do we dig
>> into stuff like this when we can play with the code? ;-)
>>
>> Ahh well, my first thoghts where that cygwin+source were bigger than 1
>> CD, therefore it might be easier for them going binaries only. How
>> long will that last (the excellent size of today)? OTOH when cygwin
>> climbs over 600 megs.. we are probably using DVD's ;-)
>
>A complete Cygwin *mirror* is over 700MB.

FYI, A 'du -s' of ~release is 1,166,028 bytes.

This has no real bearing on what is needed to put all of the current
packages + source on a CD but you can probably be pretty sure that it is
at least 40% less than that.

cgf

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