last minute release notes for test1

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Jun 15 01:51:21 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > We _really_ ought to document network installs more prominently. Far too
> > many people just aren't aware that it's possible, and they keep using
> > those horrid unreliable round shiny things.
> 
> I prefer physical CD and DVD at the beginning of a test cycle.
> I have 2 machines (desktop, laptop) of the same $ARCH to install;
> I also have to re-do installs that break, which is likely
> for Test-1 of a cycle.  I find that downloading the whole DVD
> (via DSL torrent @ 150KB/s) saves me time beginning with the
> third install.  Network installs are for Test-3.

I think David means doing it from a local mirror.  Download rawhide to a
spare machine and you can install over NFS.  There are certainly cases
where mirroring rawhide is prohibitively expensive, but it is certainly
a viable option with disk space and bandwidth to spare.

josh




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