On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:51:15PM -0600, Andreas Girardet wrote:
I have done that in the past and it is something that I plan for SUPER.
SUPER?
If that is done, I will look what pages to have moved so you can have a working KDE on one CD.
I can probably get it done by the end of the week, if you can wait until then. Got a few other things todo first.
No problems. It also is not something for me alone. It is more for everybody who wants to use SUSE.
If you want to try here is how I have done it in the past do it in high level steps. Maybe I cannot remember a step, but I think overall this is how you get a 1CD install with modifications.
Create an install you like with all packages you want and get rid of any package you do not want. Use that list of packages to create an autoyast.xml file. Create an autoyast.xml file that contains all those packages and not much else. Anything that is missing the installer will ask for anyhow. Create a Yast repository with those files. This will be the basis for your CD. Populate the yast repository on disc with all the additional directories of the iso #1 Put the autoyast.xml file onto the yast repository and modify the islinux.cfg to start that one with autoyast= Create the iso using mkisofs
The xml file basically circumvents the installer asking for package categories. You could of course to do it properly edit those to suit your liking, but I did not need that in the past.
Now if only SUSE/Novell would do such a thing and use that CD as the first CD, then people could do a workable instalation with 1 CD. What I have seen, the placing of the different files is semi, random. Each instalation needs several CD's and some for only a few packages. I can understand that this is something that has grown and there was never really a need to do it otherwise. My feelings are that on CD 1 a working KDE should be possible. Add CD 2 for Gnome (or the other way around) CD3, the servers, CD4 the games and CD5 the laguages. I am just trowing around ideas. Nothing definite. I asume and forgive me if I'm wrong, but now a *.sel is made and then a script looks on what CD this is. My feeling is that you must make a *.sel and then look if the selected packages can be put on as least CD's as possible. I am sure that this requres a LOT of puzzeling an making decisions of what not to include just so you can do this. If you just look at CD1 and what actually is not needed on a first CD. baekmuk? That should be on the CD with languages and fonts. I am sure that people who are much smarter and actually understand what each program does will be able to do this. Not for this version, I guess, but for the next, hopefully. houghi -- Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.