Philip Hands wrote: > > So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This > > does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib, > > non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds. > > > > This needs to be addressed quick! > > > > Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method > > that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded > > it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages > > to support a new field for each package "CD" which contains the > > CD on which the package is stored. > > > > Phil, as debian-cd maintainer and maintainer of the OfficialCD, I'd > > like to hear your oppinion. > > If there's a way of making multi CD installs work, then I'm all for it.
Of course there is. Aren't we all able to do some programming? Please take a look at the mail I've just sent and take a look at the dpkg-multicd package which provides three methods for accessing multiple binary cd-roms. ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/dpkg-multicd_0.7.1_all.deb > One thing: Do people think it's important to keep the possibility of doing a > one CD install, and still ending up with a useful system ? Yes! I don't think this is too difficult. There are a lot of packages which can be moved onto the second cd-rom. > If so, I would think the thing to do is to move the ``most optional'' > packages > from main onto the second CD, so that the first CD still contains the > ``most important'' bits of main. > How do we determine what's important, and what's optional ? Some people already mentioned that we need to distinguish between certain packgages. I propose: . First try to separate by section, move the least important section to the second cd and check the remaining disk space. . Secondly check some packages and their priority, move some back onto the first cd and some others off of the first cdrom. . Thirdly you could try to move whole subsystems off of the first CD, like already mentioned: sound, tex, scientific (partially in math, partially somewhere else), misc etc. Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H. Peter Anvin
