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

Hi,

Hi Bernd,

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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/

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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 :)