Yo So much email! The time difference sure kills my ability to coherently discuss!
I think OpenOffice should be left out.
I am also of that opinion, since it is the single largest app. But from experience I can say that there will be many wanting it ...
To me, this ONE CD system is for system purposes. May be there should be one for desktop purposes (openOffice, acrobat, mail, etc) and another with KDE plus unix tools, kernel headers, gcc/gcc+, bison and the likes. I installed the KDE version over the weekend for a SUPER test (standard KDE version) and ran into a situation that you might be able to help with.
There can be as many purpose driven CD's as people wanting them and creating them. The process i really straight forward and explained on the 1CD page. If you create one just add it to that page and let me know so that you can upload it.
I needed to install some more packages into my 1_CD test system, so I downloaded the full version 10 Beta 4 iso's into my (another) SLES server. Then, after mounting the iso's - o loop, I copied them all into one single directory (/usr/share/empty) for "vstftp" access from the 1_CD test system. I found the media.1/media file empty in the full version I downloaded. So I populated this file. Then on my test system I changed the source to point to the SLES server via FTP. The yast2 on my test system could not find any of the packages. I did run the yast2- autoyast utility to create the description file.
any suggestions?
Follow the instruction on the 1CDpage. It will lead you to the goal. This is fron my script: cd LOCATIONOFCD echo "SUPER" > media.1/media echo ` date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` >>media.1/media echo "1" >>media.1/media ls -A1 > directory.yast cd suse /opt/kde3/share/apps/krpmview/create_package_descr -x setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV -l english -l spanish -l french -l german -l czech -l hungarian -l italian cd .. rm INDEX.gz ls-lR.gz ls -lR > ls-lR gzip ls-lR find . > INDEX gzip INDEX hope this helps Andreas