install question: which cd's
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Nov 25 21:28:32 UTC 2005
John Reiser wrote:
>>ah, btw, is there a logic about the content of the several disks??
>
>
> It saves time (and CDs) if the most frequent installs take the
> fewest disks. Frequently it has been the case that the default
> package selection can be installed using only the first two CDs.
> A previous post in this thread says that FC5test1 works this way.
>
> However, I added system tools, software development, and x11 software
> development (but not GNOME development, not KDE development, not
> legacy software development) to the default list. The installer
> requested all 5 CDs on x86_64. It looked to me as if at most
> 1 package was required from both the fourth and the fifth CD-ROM,
> and it seems to me that such package placement could be improved.
>
by doing a few network installs from an http server and using the logs
to inform the build process.
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Cheers
John
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