houghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:17:35PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> houghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> > How large will the 6 CD version be in total?
>> 
>> less than 6 times 700 MB.
>
> Ok, so they should fit on one DVD.
>  
>> > I asume (hope) that the 6th CD is in the same layout as the other 5. The
>> > reason I am wondering about the above two, is so that people can use
>> > makeSUSEdvd (or any other means) and burn a DVD from either CD1-6 or from
>> > the downloadable DVD + CD 6.
>> 
>> The 6th CD will be a so called "add-on" CD and those details are
>> currently worked out.  I doubt you can add it easily to the other
>> 5 CDs,
>
> What would be the problem by having a layout like CD 3, 4 or 5?
> e.g. CD3-5 has one directory media.X, several small files and one directory
> suse with all the rpm's. OK. CD 1 and 2 are different as they are
> bootable.

We have the challenge that during a normal "OSS" installation, no
non-OSS software should get installed.  Doing it with the AddOn CD
allows this in the best way.  

With your suggestion, we would have to add the metadata of the non-OSS
packages to CD1.

> Even if CD6 has a seperate named directory like EXTRA with all the stuff
> in it, instead of suse,  that should be enough to get it on a DVD iso.
> Or some in suse and some in EXTRA so create_package_descr works.
>
> Please consider this when making the ISO. Thanks.

Let us play with this a bit...

Andreas
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