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You may be wondering why you should go through a process of building a
CD image yourself rather than simply downloading the appropriate
images from a Debian CD image mirror somewhere. The answer has been
that there are many Debian mirrors world-wide that store the complete
collection of Debian packages. If these mirrors were to also store
the CD images the extra space required is essentially wasted space and
so many of the Debian mirrors do not keep the CD images.
There are a smaller number of Debian hosts on the Internet that do
maintain CD images. These hosts are often not local and the amount of
bandwidth required to download the images from these smaller number of
mirrors is quite significant.
According to the Debian GNU/Linux CD Images Frequently Asked Questions
page (https://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html) by using a
distributed approach based on the network of Debian package mirrors
the required bandwidth to the CD image mirrors is reduced by over
99%!
Nonetheless, today you may find local Debian hosts mirroring the CD
images also. If that is the case then it is easier to simply download
the actual images rather than building the images as described in the
rest of this chapter. In Australia, for example, the primary Debian
mirror also mirrors the CD images (from
https://cdimage.debian.org. So for those in .au and
.nz it is perhaps easiest to simply download one of the following:
$ wget https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-cd/3.0_r1/i386/debian-30r1-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso
$ wget https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-cd/3.0_r1/i386/debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
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Then burn the image to CD using whatever tools you have at your
disposal. For release 3 there are 7 CDs. The NONUS alternative (which
contains items that can not be exported directly from the US) is only
relevant to the first CD.
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