"Dominique Leuenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adrian > >>>> Reply on 20-10-2006 14:04:56 <<<> >> We're currently planning to produce the following media for >> installation: >> >> * 5 CDs, you need CDs 1-3 for a normal installation with just GNOME > or >> KDE (any language) > > I think 5CDs are supportable. But for a future release it would be very > nice if the distribution of the packages could be optimized in a way > that not so many CDs would be needed for a Standard installation > (standard installation shall mean what get's installed if I just click > NEXT all the times, as most users anyhow do). I think at least shrinking > this to TWO CDs (better would be ONE) should be possible.
We're at THREE right now. > >> >> * 1 AddOn CD with only binary packages on it >> > > I assume it will contain about the same things as up to now? Java, > Flash, Real and so on? Something completely new to know about this > Disc? Nothing new ;-) >> * 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for our tier 2 >> languages (tier 1 languages are english, french, italian, spanish, >> german, chinese, japanese and czech - and support for those is on >> the standard 5 CDs) (the 5 CDs have support for installation in >> *all* languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media) >> > > The CD should be well marked on the download site, informing users what > for exactly this CD is. Like: What features do you get in plus (feature > means: what program(s) get support for more languages) Martin, Henne, could you take care of this? >> * 1 DVD containing the contents of the above 7 media (the DVD will >> only come with the final version to save bandwidth and mirror > space) >> > > Nothing to say about. Just don't create a 8th CD, or the DVD will be to > small (if the CDs are full) ;-) >> * a FTP tree with open source packages (only for the final version) >> >> * a FTP tree with binary packages (only for the final version) >> > > Will the FTP tree again contain more packages than the CDs/DVD? I > assume it does. Yes. > In this case, I absolutely would like to see the question during the > installation to add/replace the CD/DVD Installation source by the > FTP-Tree. Default selection would most probably be "no", as far not > everybody has a high speed internet connection. > > Comments on this? Or already implemented? (Alpha 5 did not offer > something like this) Implemented in a slightly different way - we ask to add the ftp trees (currently factory) during install, you should see this first time with Beta1, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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