On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Eric Pierce wrote:
Question: If one does a basic install keeping all defaults (i.e., English, etc.), will only CD 1 be needed for the install?
I'm not sure how basic is basic, but somehow I doubt that the distro is
designed for installation off just one CD, since most people install KDE
and suchlike, and so the SuSE Team would not have been under any pressure
to support 1 CD installs.
However, if you have a DVD reader, a 1 DVD install works just fine :-)
If the issue is installing SuSE on a bunch of identical machines with
minimal operator intervention, consider setting up an "enterprise mirror"
site, to be accessed by FTP (but not by the general public, mentioned in a
posting a few days ago). Copy your DVD onto it under the right directory
tree. Patch one machine using YOU, copy the patches onto your mirror site,
and stop bothering the overloaded global FTP servers. Also see the recent
post about autoyast2; I'm going to be perusing that documentation very
closely.
I'm putting together some documentation on this, and I'll post when I have
something to offer.
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ReSent-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
ReSent-From: Jim Carter
Question: If one does a basic install keeping all defaults (i.e., English, etc.), will only CD 1 be needed for the install?
I'm not sure how basic is basic, but somehow I doubt that the distro is designed for installation off just one CD, since most people install KDE and suchlike, and so the SuSE Team would not have been under any pressure to support 1 CD installs. However, if you have a DVD reader, a 1 DVD install works just fine :-) If the issue is installing SuSE on a bunch of identical machines with minimal operator intervention, consider setting up an "enterprise mirror" site, to be accessed by FTP (but not by the general public, mentioned in a posting a few days ago). Copy your DVD onto it under the right directory tree. Patch one machine using YOU, copy the patches onto your mirror site, and stop bothering the overloaded global FTP servers. Also see the recent post about autoyast2; I'm going to be perusing that documentation very closely. I'm putting together some documentation on this, and I'll post when I have something to offer. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) --g9PJqSPM002128.1035575548/simba.math.ucla.edu--