Bug#1011343: WISHLIST: Offical ALL-IN-ONE images?

Hi Arne,

Just fyi, archive.debian.org or a mirror site has a copy of the distros you have lost a long with the rest of the official Debian releases. 

Mike Hosken 
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> On 24/05/2022, at 00:09, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 21 May 2022 13:33:02 +0800
> Zhang Boyang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Indeed, I admit super-big-iso is a crazy idea, and a local mirror is 
>> more useful in most cases. I think there is a few special cases that a 
>> super-big-iso might be more useful.
>> 
>> 1) Computers / Virtual Machines isolated from public internet or have no 
>> network at all. It is convenient to have such an ISO to install software 
>> on demand. A single file is much more convenient than setting up a local 
>> mirror. It's also easy to manage or verify integrity, if frequent 
>> updates are not needed.
>> 
>> 2) Archival purposes. If someone (in future, for example, in 2042) want 
>> to install a very old debian system, he/she may grab the big ISO and all 
>> he/she need is that single file. Although it's not easy to grab the file 
>> in far future, but I guess there is always someone crazy enough to 
>> archive all files, isn't it? :P
>> 
> 
> Hi Zhang!
> 
> A very good idea!
> 
> I have local repositories mirrorred with debmirror, all versions.
> Suddenly I found my archives of the old distributions were (almost) empty.
> 
> bo is lost
> potato is lost
> sarge is lost
> etch is lost
> lenny is lost
> 
> Upstream was deleted and debmirror, well, just mirrored them.
> 
> I spend several hours to find intact repositories for them globally, did not succeed.
> 
> So having another way of keeping debian history for future generations is a very good idea in my opinion!
> 
> Arne
> 
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