Re: Slink not installable from CDs
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:32:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.
>
> Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images.
[...]
> So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This
> does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib,
> non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds.
>
> This needs to be addressed quick!
>
> Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
> that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
> it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
> to support a new field for each package "CD" which contains the
> CD on which the package is stored.
[...]
Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package
ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but
currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdrom-apt"
method should be added quick.
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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