I don't think he downloaded the commercial version - that shouldn't be
available for download. The live version is only available as an iso image
AFAIK so I will rule out that possibility also.
I also downloaded SuSE 7.1 and it was very large. The main reason for that is
that SuSE packages on the CD are named in DOS 8.3 file name format. To
maintain the original package name with full description of the version etc
they have a directory with symbolic links to the pachkages. The directory name
if full_names and by downloading it you actually downloaded the entire distro
twice, because the ftp client doesn't realize it's just symbolic links (or the
mirror maintainer made this mistake also...).
The first thing is to delete the full_names directory. I'm pretty sure the
installation doesn't look in there and doesn't need this directory at all.
Then, delete also tons of docs that come with SuSE in German, French and
Italian. I can't promise you that it will now fit on 1 CD - because it still
looks big after it all and our CD writer just died on us (Merphy's law) and I
can't test it.
Let me know if you have any luck.
>Mike, the SuSE 7.1 have 3 versions:
>
>1. Commercial - thats the 3GB one - which is not intended to download and
>install (unless you got lots of time and lots of bandwidth) - it's the
mirror.
>
>2. Live version - this version is non installable SuSE - which means - you
>put the cd and run Linux from it - all the files that it needs to create are
>written as actual temporary files on the hard disk (you don't need even Linux
>partition). This is just to "show" the Linux to people and maybe play with it
>a bit.
>
>3. Evaluation - this is the short version which doesn't include lots of stuff
>(which will be un-necessary to some people). Once you install it - you can
>"complete" the installation with the Yast - and point it to a mirror of SuSE.
>
>I haven't seen any "evaluation" version of 7.1 - only "live" ones...
>
>Hetz
>
>On Monday 02 April 2001 09:59, mike ray wrote:
>> The suse 7.1 is more that 3 GB of files, which files should i download, if
>> i download everything
>>
>> how do i set them on the cd`s ??
>>
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