Shimon, If you've got a Windows machine at home, I would recommend installing an Intel Linux distribution on it in "dual boot" mode. (SuSE, since that seems to be the S/390 version you want to use.) Then, when you download your files, the symlinks will just be symlinks and not take up large amounts of disk space.
If you don't want that kind of an adventure, I would say that you could leave out the entire KDE package, which would include the k2de1, k2de2 and k2de3 directories. You could probably not include xdev1 and xdev2. Likewise e1 and e2, unless you're an Emacs fan(atic). Or, if you ask nicely, maybe someone with a broadband connected Linux system with a CD burner will download and burn them for you. :) A snail mail address would be of help in that regard. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Shimon Lebowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: current Linux distribution > With the exception of Debian, and Turbolinux, none of the Linux/390 > distributions are available via .iso images. SuSE, and Red Hat only offer > individual RPMs and SRPMs. As recommended by Philipp, wget will be your > friend. Once you have them downloaded you can verify the integrity of the > RPMs by using rpm to check the md5sums. Or, as Alan Cox pointed out, you > can download the public key of the distribution maker, and use rpm to verify > the packages that way. Mark, this looks like it assumes my downloading is done on a linux machine, which (unfortunately?) is not the case. I have been using WS-FTP on W98 (at home!) to download all of the /cd1 directory from the SuSE sles beta site, and I am almost finished it (still using non broadband modems). Something that is disturbing is that there seem to be large areas of the tree which are apparently just links to files in other areas, but I am getting them duplicated in my download. I already have far more than 650MB, and am getting worried that a 700MB CD will also not be enough. Are there any tips available regarding how to build a SuSE CDROM on a Windows system? Are there recommended areas in the tree to 'prune' in order to save space? This is another reason why I am sorry there is no ISO format, although I do understand what seem to be SuSE's marketing concerns. Thank you all for your help, it is always encouraging knowing there are experts willing to help out! Shimon-- ************************************************************************ Shimon Lebowitz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] VM System Programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Israel Police National HQ. http://www.poboxes.com/shimonl/pubkey.htm Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 530-9877 fax: 530-9308 ************************************************************************
