On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Also, what might be the complications for mksles9root when dealing with > a DVD Image? > No complications, no script needed! > > It was good news to hear that SuSE has a DVD ISO image for SLES10. Having > one should allow you to mount the ISO image loopback, point to it and > install. There should not be a need for *any* directory structure. >
There is no need. If you take the CDs just copy or loopback mount them to CD1 to CD4 and install. > The question is what will happen when SLES10 Service Pack 1 comes out. > When Red Hat puts out an "update" (service pack), you mount the new ISO > image(s) and they replace the old ones. However, SuSE has a different > approach: when a service pack is released, a directory structure must be > created so there is a tree of RPMs. Also the yast/order and yast/instorder > files have to be correct and the install process will choose the right > RPMs to install. The SuSE approach allows for more possibilities, but the > Red Hat approach "keeps things as simple as possible". The service pack is an additional installation source. So it is a different path with CD1 to CDx. > > I know a lot of people have complained to SuSE about the complexity of the > service pack structure and the number of ISO images. The DVD ISO image > should address the latter (if in fact one exists). Hopefully the former > will be addressed when SP1 comes out. With a DVD ISO image (max 9.1GB?), > perhaps the entire install tree/order/instorder structure can be in place. > Then you could just replace the SLES10 vanilla with the SLES10+SP1 ISO > image and the yast code that traverses the install tree could be left the > same. Just a thought ... I will keep this in mind. Its basicly a problem how big SP1 will be. Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ihno Krumreich "Never trust a computer you can lift." -- Ihno Krumreich [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Projectmanager S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstr. 5 +49-911-74053-439 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
