Fedora 11 RC2 installation testing

Allen Kistler an037-ooai8 at yahoo.com
Sat May 30 18:22:29 UTC 2009


Andre Robatino wrote in fedora-test-list:
> I have made available a deltaiso from the i386 Preview DVD ISO to the 
> i386 RC2 ISO.  It is 233945224 bytes (about 6-7% the size of the full 
> ISO) with MD5 f0413ba9d23be4dd1778a06f35c80a43, and can be downloaded from
> 
> http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=497480
> 
> ...  To apply 
> it, one needs to have the deltarpm package installed, and then run the 
> command
> 
> applydeltaiso Fedora-11-Preview-i386-DVD.iso 
> Fedora-11-Preview_rc2-i386-DVD.diso Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso
> 
> ...  Of 
> course, one should check the sha256sum of the final ISO (listed in 
> Fedora-11-i386-CHECKSUM as 
> 07f1229ad5717d63d2e08d556b9221be71a825ad83b9090b4632bf7208189bf6) 
>  
> ...  This was just done as a demonstration. ...

Hmm...  Make the technology work *for* you.  A novel idea.

Maybe the GA could be distributed the same way, like to mirrors and end 
users.  It only works for places that already have the previous image 
(i.e., Preview in this case), but that's at least the testers.

Worth it?




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