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Get the Fresh Bits: Factory Live CDs
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I love the smell of fresh alphas in the morning! Stephan Kulow is making it dead easy to test the latest and greatest openSUSE with Factory live CDs. So, if you want to hack on Factory, but don’t have a spare system to run it on (and don’t want to be running bleeding edge software on your main desktop) then these CDs are for you. (They come in tasty GNOME and KDE flavors, too!)
So, if you’d like help hack on openSUSE, lend a little testing assistance, or if you just want to bask in the warm glow of software that’s being prepped for openSUSE 11.0, grab some live CDs and have fun with it!
Both iso files are unreadable and unusable.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs/Delta-Alpha2-20080212-GNOME.iso
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs/Delta-Alpha2-20080212-KDE.iso
Using those xdeltas on my x86-64 install, builds a 4.8MB Gnome & 5.2MB KDE i386 latest.iso. Concur that the xdeltas are unusable.
They can still be used!!!
The following was posted on http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-02/msg00265.html
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Use as such:
xdelta patch Delta-Alpha2-20080212-GNOME.iso \
openSUSE-11.0-Alpha2-GNOME-LiveCD-i386.iso latest.iso
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Therefore the iso files listed on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs
are actually delta iso files from the last opensuse11.0-Alpha2 Live CD.
If you want to use the new delta iso files:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs/Delta-Alpha2-20080212-GNOME.iso
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/FactoryLiveCDs/Delta-Alpha2-20080212-KDE.iso
You need to download the original Live CD and perform a xdelta patch.
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0-Alpha2/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.0-Alpha2-GNOME-LiveCD-i386.iso
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0-Alpha2/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.0-Alpha2-KDE-LiveCD-i386.iso
Hope this helps.
Enjoy!
Still doesn’t work.
Trying this under windows. Downloaded the latest Xdelta program. Follow command line instructions:
E:\ISO>xdelta3 -d -vfs openSUSE-11.0-Alpha2-KDE-LiveCD-i386.iso Delta-Alpha2-20080212-KDE.iso susepatch.iso
xdelta3: not a VCDIFF input: XD3_INVALID_INPUT
Apparently it doesn’t recognize the patch file?
-CB
It’s the xdelta 1.1.4 format (xdelta is not backward-compatible).