Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> There are two problems:
>
> - there are packages we don't put on ISO's because for whatever
> reason we don't want to have more than 2/3/whatever ISO's, so
> there are some packages which are only available in the "tree"
> version
>
> - due to overloaded mirrors, the contrib were not put in the
> "tree" at the time the rest was, which produced the famous "no
> hdlist2.cz" problem
Re 1, English speakers can happily make their own 3 CD set (with space
to spare) using Mandrake's 9.0 MakeCD facility (which now works - it
didn't on release) from the tree as downloaded by the latest (i.e.
today's <g>) troels.rsync6.2.pl - freely available from my web site.
This is because, in addition to arranging where possible to use rsync's
fast 'patch-in-place' algorithm to markedly reduce download time, all
the other-language components of 9.0 are not downloaded, resulting in a
9.0 space of only 1,513 MB, and a cooker space of only 1,508 MB. Note
that 9.0 CD2 does require a 700MB CD-R or CD-RW blank.
The 9.0-tree complete English-only CD set:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 680755200 Oct 1 01:20 1-Cooker.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 699269120 Oct 1 01:24 2-Cooker.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 159612928 Oct 1 01:24 3-Cooker.iso
This will give English speakers the benefit of a _complete_ 9.0 on 3 CDs.
It is not difficult, but _IS_ tedious, to modify the rsync-exclude file
to benefit another language. If anyone does it, in the GPL spirit,
others might be interested.
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
IMPORTANT! troels... for ML 9.0 now available. See my web site:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
