Re: [SLE] Converting 9.3 CD ISOs to a DVD ISO

From: David Bolt (fhfr-yva-r_at_davjam.org)
Date: 09/05/05

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    On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Internet Mobile w/ Treo
    <adamvaz@earthlink.net> wrote:-

    >Is it an reasonable guess that this may be the final SuSE on CD?

    Probably not. The betas are being released as CD ISOs, so my guess would
    be that they continue to release them in this way for a few versions
    yet.

    >I would not mind if they use an optimised version of YAST that work an
    >order of magnitude faster. Upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 should not take
    >four hours.

    The only times an upgrade has taken so long was either because the
    hardware I was using was slow, i.e. sub 500MHz CPU and 256MB RAM or
    less, or I had installed virtually everything possible to install[0]
    from the DVD.

    >Maybe if YasT used self-optimising code for the different Intel/AMD processors.

    That can't happen until all the non-compiled bits of YaST are rewritten.
    At present YaST itself is a bash script that calls the other modules
    which are, from just a very quick look, another large collection of
    (bash, Perl, whatever other scripting language) scripts and also
    compiled modules.

    [0] Only done once, and that was done as a test to see just how much
    space it used when everything was installed. Now I install most things,
    but remove things I know I haven't used, nor am likely to use.
    Regards,
      David Bolt 

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