On Tuesday 25 October 2005 03:32 pm, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 17:41, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 11:21 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:
With respect to Bruce's script, is there any change we'll get to see the jigdo method for making single layer DVDs? That was really neat...
What is the 'jigdo method'?
As far as I know the release candidate of 9.3 that eventually went gold was distributed to beta testers on two single layer DVDs, one i586, one x86_64. Someone made jigdo templates of these discs, and reproducing the discs was then as easy as pointing jigdo to the dual layer DVD for its source.
The difference between this and simply trimming the contents until it fits on a single layer DVD disc, is that the index of packages available corresponds with what's actually on the disc. I haven't had enough time to go delve into the different files on the DVD to see what they contain and what I'll need to edit/change to make a "perfect" 10.0 single layer DVD.
Hans
Well, in my honest opinion: 1) There is too much stuff on the non-64bit side of things for it all to fit on a single-layer DVD. 2) Because of (1), some trimming is necessary. 3) I don't think the index is an issue because a full install using a SL DVD I created had no problems at all nor have I seen any while doing minor adds. But suture self.