On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:10 am, Nicoll, Jon wrote:
Hello there I have managed to downlload an image of the SuSE 8.1 tree ... this is on a separate machine, one that I can't easily ftp to.
What I'd like to do, if possible, is to split up the downloaded tree into multiple CD directories, and then burn them onto CDs like the original distribution. ...
Unfortunately, SuSE intentionally makes this "difficult" [otherwise they feel they would be standing in line behind Mandrake, I guess...] and it is understandable as to why they might do this ["free-as-in" arguments aside, it takes real $$$ to accomplish what SuSE and others are doing. Human nature has proven itself as "selfish" in that if you put something on a table that costs you money to provide, and place a sign there that says, "free, take ONE", people will take as many as they can carry... (and when that's gone, some people would even take the sign!)] Do you have enough space on the target system to hold the complete installation tree? [note also: unless you REALLY want them, I think CD #5, and possibly #4 isn't needed as this is the "source" CD, so that cuts out quite a few megabytes of stuff right off the top] If you do have enough space, consider using something like tar to create a [multi-volume] archive of the installation files, and then "untar" them on the target machine and do an update "from a local directory" (the "multi-volume" bit lets you copy these to multiple CD's -- they won't be "directly" usable like a standard SuSE cd set would be, but as I said, if you can load the install tree on the target system, that should suffice...) -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net