Actually, in addition to the LiveEval and the Eval versions SuSE has 2
commercial versions, neither of which should be available as ISO images -
the personal and professional.
All the packages of all the distros (or, in short, the whole professional
6-CD (I think) package library) is on their site wide open, but it's in no
way intended to be stored on one CD unless you know exactly which packages
constitute the 1-CD personal [commercial] edition and reconstruct it from
the contents of their site. This should be time-consuming enough for
mostly anyone on this list to justify paying them the 35$ or so that the
personal CD costs. Don't forget that our time is worth money, and fiddling
with this kind of much is not what I regard as educational recreation.
In short - save your time and do what I do - wait for the evaluation-7.1
that will appear shortly, dump the whole 3 Gigs on a DVD-RAM, or just buy
the Personal.
Cheers.
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Udi Kalifon wrote:
> 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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