John Andersen wrote:

On Thursday 01 March 2007, Ross Davis wrote:

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One of the drawbacks listed on the opensuse website for installing from CD images is, "Due to size limitations of CD images, you get only a subset of all packaged software for openSUSE."

What packaged software is missing from the CD images?

Thanks, Ross

The same web site will tell you.

I am having difficulty finding this information on the web site. I came across this: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_List which does not help that much, other than to verify that this equation is approximately true: CD[1-5] + non-OSS CD = DVD But there is an implication that some packages are present only in an internet installation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

It's a bit more than an implication. It's actually a fact. The present size of the 32bit repository is about 6GB. This includes i586/ i686/ and noarch/ . The x86_64 repository is around 3.3GB, but doesn't include any noarch/ or 32bit packages. Adding the noarch/ packages takes it up to around 5.4GB.

As you can see, to make an image that will fit on a DVD+/-R (4.35GB), quite a few packages are going to need to be left off the DVD. Those are those that you'll find available through an internet installation.

I appreciate the reply. So these packages were excluded in order to keep the installation media to a single DVD? I wanted to see just what those packages were so I grabbed this: http://giannaros.org/suse/package_list/openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386-list.txt and this: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/INDEX.gz I then goofed around on the command line and wound up with a list of 2347 excluded packages (not counting x86_64 and ppc). Seeing which packages had been excluded was interesting (and useful). Thanks for the help, ross -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org