On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Hoyt wrote:

> I am creating, for my personal use and education, a customized Mandrake 6.0 CD that 
>not only includes the current updates, but includes updated versions of RawWrite for 
>Windows, rawrite2, explore2fs, WINE, additional documentation, some additional KDE 
>RPMs, and so on. This may also a turn into a project for the local LUG.
> 
> I'm running out of space on the CD.
> 
> What in the /MISC tree can I safely delete? I suspect all the /CVS directories, and 
>the files ending in .C, .H and .O. in the /SRC directory; the older copy of the 
>SYSLINUX directory, the RESCUE.BAK directory. How about those .NOG files?

Make sure you check all the copyrights and such before deleteing any
source code.

> I have deleted FIPS (I have Partition Magic) and all the non-English boot images, 
>keymaps and man pages (I won't be needing these).
> 
> Anything else I can delete to free up some space?

Don't forget the alternate HOWTO binarys, and maybe even the english ones
if you haven't removed those from the doc dir yet

> Given the extent of my changes, is there anything other than running 
>./misc/src/install/genhdlist that I must do? How might I modify the "workstation" 
>option to change th package selection (or make an additional category like "Single 
>User Desktop"? Just point me in the right direction.

look at the comps file, theres lots od documents that turn up in a
websearch about these too.

> Thanks,
> Hoyt
> 
> 

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