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 -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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