Steve's Debian CDs/DVDs page
The standard deal for discs is simple:
- £2 per CD
- £5 per DVD
I'm Steve McIntyre and I'm a Debian developer and the team lead of "debian-cd", the group that creates and publishes official Debian CDs and DVDs. To help cover the cost of bandwidth and storage for my own local Debian mirror, I sell CD-R and DVD-R copies of Debian. If you wish to pay extra for your discs I'll pass along the surplus as a donation to the Debian UK society and add you to my debian-uk Donors list.
If you're outside the EU I may have to ask you for extra for postage, and if you're outside the UK getting money to me may be difficult. In either case it may be easier to try the Debian Vendors List for somebody closer to you.
I offer a discount to other Debian people and to charities - ask me...
How to order
Contact me by email first. Please do not just send orders to me by snail-mail; I'd always rather have an email address so I can contact you easily in case of any problems.
Discs available
The standard discs I do are currently:
Etch (4.0_r3) discs:
The new release!
Etch on CD takes a different number of CDs depending on the architecture:
20 CDs arm hppa mips mipsel s390 sparc 21 CDs alpha amd64 i386 source 22 CDs ia64 powerpc There are also extra CD options available with etch. The default installation CD#1 for each architecture will install the Gnome desktop environment by default. As things have grown, there is no longer enough space on that CD for other desktop environments as well. So now there are extra alternative versions of CD#1 that will install KDE or Xfce by default instead. Please indicate if you'd like one of these. Note that if you're going to use one of these with a normal CD set, you will almost definitely still need the original CD#1 to have all the packages you might need.
Etch on DVD takes a different number of discs depending on the architecture:
3 DVDs alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 mips mipsel s390 source sparc 4 DVDs ia64 powerpc Unlike the CD sets, the DVDs should contain enough on the first DVD to install each of the 3 desktop environments.
Also, new with etch, there are some additional multi-architecture discs that can be used to boot and install on any of several architectures. There are "netinst" CDs (install the base system only, ready for network updates) with amd64/i386/powerpc (the most common architectures) or with alpha/hppa/ia64 (the HP special!). There is also a multi-arch DVD that should contain enough packages for most people's needs for amd64/i386/powerpc and includes the source for all those packages too.
Sarge (3.1_r7) discs:
The previous stable release.
Sarge on CD takes 13 or 14 CDs per binary architecture. Source takes a further 15 CDs. If you really want, I can supply some of non-free too, on an extra CD per architecture/source.
Sarge will alternatively fit on 2 DVDs for most architectures (3 for ia64 and full source; the 3rd source DVD is not generally useful for most people, so I don't recommend it). DVDs are much more convenient, and cheaper, so I'd recommend them instead of CDs!
(Unofficial) sarge amd64:
Debian sarge did not include an official release for the AMD64 architecture, but it has been included in Debian for the new release (etch). However, the amd64 porting team made a parallel release at the same time, and members of the Debian CD team created CD and DVD images in parallel with the main release. I will happily burn CDs of amd64 at normal cost.
Etch (v4.0r0 to 4.0r3) update discs:
For people who already have older releases of Etch on CD/DVD, an update CD is a cheaper way of updating than buying a complete new set of CDs. These CDs contain just the changed packages needed to upgrade, or the sources for them. These CDs should work fine with any existing set: use apt-cdrom to add to the end of the set.
There are 3 update CDs per architecture (or alternatively 1 DVD each), and another 2 separate CDs (or 1 DVD) for source.
Sarge (v3.1r0 to 3.1r7) update discs:
Similar to the Etch versions above, same deal.
Sid (unstable) / Lenny (testing):
Probably only for developers - not guaranteed to be useable in any way, but you may find them useful. Ask me...
I am able and happy to create CDs for architectures other than i386/amd64, but I am unable to test them as much, or in some cases at all.
If you want custom discs/images made, let me know and I may be able to help.
slink_cd
There used to be some details here about the slink_cd program that I wrote years ago to make Debian Slink (2.1) CDs. If you're looking for that, try here.