> 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. > > Phil, as debian-cd maintainer and maintainer of the OfficialCD, I'd > like to hear your oppinion.
If there's a way of making multi CD installs work, then I'm all for it. One thing: Do people think it's important to keep the possibility of doing a one CD install, and still ending up with a useful system ? If so, I would think the thing to do is to move the ``most optional'' packages from main onto the second CD, so that the first CD still contains the ``most important'' bits of main. How do we determine what's important, and what's optional ? Is something like ``Anything with a priority of extra gets put on the second CD'' a reasonable guess ? or should we make a list of stuff to go on the second CD based on some sensible criteria (if anyone can think of some without starting a flame war ;-) The second CD might then be main2 + contrib + X11-source, and the third could be the source, assuming that all fits (which it probably doesn't anymore) Has anyone been making slink CDs BTW ? If so, how big is it all ? I clearly need to give this a go and see how big it all is... I'll report back. Cheers, Phil.
