Hi, I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.
Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images. finlandia!joey(tty11):~> grep '^Size:' /pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages|awk '{sum+=$2} END{print sum / 1024 / 1024}' 764.438 finlandia!joey(tty11):~> grep '^Size:' /pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/Packages|awk '{sum+=$2} END{print sum / 1024 / 1024}' 589.751 So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib, non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds. This needs to be addressed quick! Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages to support a new field for each package "CD" which contains the CD on which the package is stored. Phil, as debian-cd maintainer and maintainer of the OfficialCD, I'd like to hear your oppinion. Guy, or who the current maintainer of dpkg-scanpackges is, I'd also like to hear your oppionon about adding an "--cd <n>" option to dpkg-scanpackages. Regards, Joey [1] ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/dpkg-multicd/ -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.