On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:17, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Joeb wrote:
> > Greg Meyer wrote:
> > 
> > >On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources.  They exist
> > >>on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd.  Is it
> > >>just my CDs or were the ISOs bad (again).  I can DL the sources, but
> > >>it would have been nice if they were included!  Does anyone know of
> > >>any other files missing from the ISOs that are in the tree?
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >I downloaded the PowerPack iso's and it is on CD3 of that set.  There is 
> > >actually a lot of stuff in main that is not on the 3 cd's.  It just 
> > >won't all fit on 3 cd's.  But if you set up a 9.2 mirror as a urpmi 
> > >source, any package you want installed will be automatically downloaded 
> > >and installed.
> > >  
> > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
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> > >  
> > >
> > I understand that not everything can fit on the three CDs, but for the 
> > basic 3 CD download set, the third CD isn't full, so it appears that 
> > there would have been room.  It's really pretty poor that the kernel 
> > sources aren't included as many people need to compile things!  I'm 
> > wondering if and when the ISOs are put on FTP servers if this will be 
> > fixed?  If not, then a lot of people will be turned off by Mandrake.  I 
> > can only assume if people order CDs from Mandrake or CheapBytes that 
> > they don't have a high speed connection.  If that's the case, then 
> > setting up a 9.2 mirror as a source won't work.  Further more, as many 
> > 9.1 mirrors are being deleted (as I type), it would mean that if you run 
> > 9.2 longer than six months, you lose your ability to reinstall something 
> > that wasn't on the CDs.
> > 
> > Just my 2 cents.
> > 
> > Joeb
> > 
> > 
> 
> My 3rd CD is 696 MB  granted that 4 megs short of full but not enough
> for the kernel source.  For that I recommend urpmi.  
> 
> James
disk 3 download is 652 megs


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