Hi,
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:39:28PM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
How hard would it be to include a script (or application) on DVD
versions of FC that would allow you to create the various CD's that FC
alternatively comes on. So, taking FC4 for example, the DVD replaces 4
CDs, so the script could be used to produce these CDs from the contents
of the DVD.
This would be a very attractive way to grab FC. Grab the DVD (which is
most cases is fine) and if you need to use the CDs then you can produce
them from the DVD rather than having to download them.
Thoughts???
We are already using such a script for our X/OS Linux (our rebuild of
RHEL sources) and the X/OS Linux build process includes code to handle
this. We simply provide a very small script (can/should be made much
more robust, implantmd5 etc. could be added), which you can see at:
http://download.xoslinux.org/pub/xoslinux/4/i386/release/dvdutils/dvd2cd
and while we create the CD/DVD images, we put files with the contents
and info for each CD in the dvdutils directory. See these files for
CD #1 for example:
http://download.xoslinux.org/pub/xoslinux/4/i386/release/dvdutils/.discin...
http://download.xoslinux.org/pub/xoslinux/4/i386/release/dvdutils/.pathli...
And this works fine since a year or so!
Cheers,
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