Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (123 mails)

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Am Dienstag, 1. November 2005 11:57 schrieb Bernd Nies:
> Hi,

Hi Bernd,

> > All documentations I know describe it in another way. The above will
> > not allow YOU updates with autoyast2, too.
>
> It was so explained on Nashif's Autoyast documentation.
>
> http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/
>
> Now the pages have been swallowed and digested by Novell.

You can still find the "original" pages here:

http://forgeftp.novell.com//yast/doc/SL10.0/autoinstall/

>
> >>Why doesn't Suse release SP2 as one complete SLES9+SP2 DVD? The SP2
> >>contains almost the same amount of data than the original SLES9.
> >
> > Which is not true, SLES9 still contains a lot of more data. Much more.
>
> 6 SLES9 CDs compared to 3 SP2 CDs is not a lot more.
>
> The install process with 9 CDs that need to be changed every few minutes
> is a pain if one cannot have an install server because one has to
> install it on a customer site. This is not very customer friendly.
>
> It would be much better if at least the SLES9 and the SP2 are each on a
> DVD but we only got CDs.
>
> The free burn and fire version of SUSE Linux is available on DVD, why
> not the SLES?

Normally it should be possible to rebuild a dvd from the cds but it seems to 
be real hard work.

You can take a look at the:

http://www.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs

tutorial. But you will need a double layer dvd to fit. I also think that this 
script is unable to handle SP CDs so you have to replace all the updated 
packages manually.

Best Regards
Marcus

PS: Meanwhile I prefer Slackware which comes on 4 CDs where only one CD is 
really necessary :)