[Arm-netbook] Request SD card image

[Justin Cormack]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:

> cnxsoft wrote:
> > On 19/04/2012 19:33, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> >> Barry Kauler wrote:
> >>> Tom,
> >>> I have received my A1000, thanks. I have notified aliexpress of the
> arrival.
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering if you could upload an image of the Ubuntu SD card.
> >>> That would be helpful for me to get up and running quickly, as I want
> >>> to do some stuff on the Mele with a running Linux.
> >>>
> >>> I think that there was an earlier discussion that it is perhaps a bit
> >>> too soon to be providing SD images. Even so, from the video of the
> >>> Ubuntu installation, it looks usable.
> >>>
> >>> I realise that it would be large, so a problem to host somewhere.
> >> Dropbox public folder? :)
> >> A usable rootfs tar ball should only be a couple of hundred MB (apt-get
> >> the rest).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > If too many people download his image, his dropbox account might be
> > blocked, at least for a while.
> > He'd better distribute it as a torrent.
>
> How many people do you actually think would want to download it at this
> point? 10? 20? 100? If there were thousands of us messing about with
> such things, maybe. But considering I'm using dropbox as a CDN for
> images on several of my sites (does miracles for my bandwidth, I only
> have 2-and-a-bit Mbits upstream) and have never seen a problem, I'm
> inclined to not worry about it too much.
>
> Or you could just sign up for a freebie email account, make a dropbox
> account for it and use that, so it doesn't really matter.
>
> Happy to host any Mele images on Amazon S3 or a server of mine.

Justin
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