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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
