On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:50 pm, Larry Theden wrote: > > Pretty much. MOT, you'll be ahead of the isos. Like right after > > What, then, is the advantage (if any) of downloading/burning the > betas/RCs as they come down the pipe? > I suppose, if nothing else, having *a* set of bootable CDs is a > good fallback, but what (if anything) do you get for using the > .ISOs as opposed to keeping up with urpmi?
Well, I don't know, just testing the installer mainly and the default set up I guess. Like you said having the isos available locally is a good backup in case an update toasts system (tho I"ve never had that happen). I have unlimited downloads and a big pipe so no biggie for me. tho I"m still in rc2 updated cause I got winex and mplayer and alot of other goodies working good. So I don't boot rc3. One example is kdeartwork is missing from rc3 isos, but I never would have realized that if I hadn't installed it fresh. I guess mainly it's personal preference. One reason I kept wanting to install them fresh to make sure the nvidia drivers would continue to work, cause they did for beta2 of redhat, but didn't in null. <shrugs> So I was worried that at any time they'd quit working with mandrake. But then nvidia released new drivers compiled or compatible with gcc 3.x so that's a worry relieved. I'm fairly sure I will do a fresh install of 9.0 final tho for sure. -s
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