Christoph Thiel wrote: > On Sat, 13 May 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > >>>> I'd also like to add that there are no problems with DL disks >>>> either! There was a note somwhere that the reason why the DVD does >>>> not contain everything that the retail DVD has is because the retail >>>> is DL. To me this is a "reason" that really has nothing to do with >>>> the reality. >>> Size. The Boxed version is dual layer. It contains all the rest that >>> is not on the CDs and that is on the FTP site. >> By far not. inst-source is 33 GB. > > It's 33 GB, because it's no only dual-arch (like the DVD9 on the box), but > tri-arch (x86, x86_64, ppc). In additon to that, the FTP Trees contain > -debuginfo packages and some -devel packages, that didn't fit onto the > DVD9.
It would be cool if the trees became quad-arch (including ia64). SGI already offers the factory trees for ia64, so maybe it is possible to merge these packages into the tree. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
