Re: Download vs buy Suse 10?
From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 11/26/05
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:14:48 +0100
Michel Catudal wrote:
> I keep adding stuff and I am trying to figure out how to make it
> a multi DVD install.
Interesting thought. I have no idea how they make the multi CD version,
as that should be the same procedure.
This is my guestimate on how to do it. First make 1 DVD that you can
mount and install. The second one does not need to be bootable. What it
needs is jusy a lot of rpm files. You can use createrepo to make them
usable in YaST if you add the prober source.
However if you want to do the correct thing, you use
create_package_descr and start reading up on things like
http://www.opensuse.org/1_CD_Install#Configuration
Search on that site, there is more available as links and info on
openSUSE.org
> I will add more themes and change all icons that have lizards and Novell
> to something else. I prefer kitties to lizards.
> Once I am done with it, it will no longer be SuSE even though it will
> have most of SuSE's stuff in it.
It would be nice if you give the feedback on what you did and how you
did it. Even greater if you would put that info on openSUSE.org. Join
one of their mailinglists and you get the help of the SUSE people and
other people who have the knowledge to get things solved (like the multi
DVD situation)
Think about a cool name for your distribution. Catux? Catudulux?
> There is a lot of room for improvment.
I woudl call it change, not improvement. What you need to do is just
change (and perhaps add) a My.sel and choose that. Unfortunatly the two
examples are 404-ing in the above link.
> I can make custom setups for my brothers and sisters according to their
> preferences and they will just have to pick the one setting they want.
Great. Put them online, so others can see them.
> The choices in SuSE install are very generic and not very good for a
> serious installtion unless all you want is to replace a windows PC.
They should be generic, as ther are for the genral public.
>> It's not really that you "make a version of your own" you just install
>> the way you like. Freedom of choice. Nobody's making the choices for
>> you, they are giving you options. A lot of them. There's a difference.
>
> You obviously have not install SuSE very much.
I have and I must say that I agree with him. I am happy with most of the
choices, however you have the choice to completely change it and add and
delete anything you like, including YaST and replace it with apt,
rebuild the kernell and make you sort of Gentoo box from it. It probably
won't be worth the trouble you put into it, but that is another issue.
You have the choice to install or uninstall anything you like and that
from the get go.
http://www.novell.com/documentation/nld/index.html?page=/documentation/nld/nld_deployment/data/bvpwoh2.html
or http://tinyurl.com/cv3vo
> There is more to it than that. These companies are stuggling to survive
> and have choosen to use the Linux community to develop their OS. Our
> labor is free of charge.
And that is a problem to you? If it is, please tell me.
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