Re: [SLE] Converting 9.3 CD ISOs to a DVD ISO
Is it an reasonable guess that this may be the final SuSE on CD? I would not mind if they use an optimised version of YAST that work an order of magnitude faster. Upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 should not take four hours. Maybe if YasT used self-optimising code for the different Intel/AMD processors. Adam SuSE 9.3 -----Original Message----- From: David Bolt <fhfr-yva-r@davjam.org> Subj: Re: [SLE] Converting 9.3 CD ISOs to a DVD ISO Date: Fri Sep 2, 2005 3:33 pm Size: 1K To: suse-linux-e@suse.com On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Paul Howie <paulhowie@gmail.com> wrote:-
On 01/09/05, Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Am I missing something? What's wrong with the DVD image they provide--am I about to find out...I'm in the middle (literally) of doing an install from it.
Cheers, Simon
The DVD has the full 64 bit version and a reduced 32 bit version. The CDs contain the full 32 bit version.
The DVD contains both the full 32 bit and 64 bit versions. The CDs contain a reduced 32 bit version. The list of the 32 bit files that are included on the DVD but aren't on the CDs is (still) available at: <URL:http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/diff_cd_dvd.html> Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 63 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD 1800 1Gb WinXP/SuSE 9.3 | AMD 2400 160Mb SuSE 8.1 | AMD 2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 AMD 1300 512Mb SuSE 9.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Internet Mobile w/ Treo <adamvaz@earthlink.net> wrote:-
Is it an reasonable guess that this may be the final SuSE on CD?
Probably not. The betas are being released as CD ISOs, so my guess would be that they continue to release them in this way for a few versions yet.
I would not mind if they use an optimised version of YAST that work an order of magnitude faster. Upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 should not take four hours.
The only times an upgrade has taken so long was either because the hardware I was using was slow, i.e. sub 500MHz CPU and 256MB RAM or less, or I had installed virtually everything possible to install[0] from the DVD.
Maybe if YasT used self-optimising code for the different Intel/AMD processors.
That can't happen until all the non-compiled bits of YaST are rewritten. At present YaST itself is a bash script that calls the other modules which are, from just a very quick look, another large collection of (bash, Perl, whatever other scripting language) scripts and also compiled modules. [0] Only done once, and that was done as a test to see just how much space it used when everything was installed. Now I install most things, but remove things I know I haven't used, nor am likely to use. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 63 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD 1800 1Gb WinXP/SuSE 9.3 | AMD 2400 160Mb SuSE 8.1 | AMD 2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 AMD 1300 512Mb SuSE 9.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11
Monday 05 Sep 2005 16:29 samaye David Bolt alekhiit:
Probably not. The betas are being released as CD ISOs, so my guess would be that they continue to release them in this way for a few versions yet.
'Sno problem if they release it as CDs. We can always merge our CD downloads to DVD using http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs. But to make CDs from a DVD download? Remember there still are many people without DVD drives. And many download managers have problems downloading stuff greater than 2 GB or so. -- (o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org //\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ... V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)
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