Re: [newbie] 9.2 is out!

[Jason Greenwood]

Here is what I do if I want a "complete Mandrake" via download (yes, one 
can join the club and still avoid the hassles of it too =). I download 
the 3 DL ISO's, then I make a copy of "Contribs" on the mirrors at the 
time of release. I also take a copy of the relevant PLF RPMS as well. 
Contribs+PLF add about 2GB worth of extra goodies (I presume are 
included in Pro-Suite and PowerPack) and then I have the complete and 
current distro all via download. Saves me waiting- and waiting for my 
pre-order. Then from there-Cookering to stay current (on unstable 
partition) is a breeze...

Cheers

Jason

robin wrote:

H.J.Bathoorn wrote:

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 13:25, ed tharp wrote:
 

and right after I posted that, I realized I bet I also have to have the
3 cd 'download' edition to get the first 3 cds, as well as the 3
powerpack cds (silver club member), oh well I guess it will run until I
get home from work
  


Huhh?? You need those too to install?  Those PowPack CD's aren't the 
first 3 install CD's?
 

LOL.  In my experience, the real doozy is the contrib CD.  Most of us 
are jaded from having sensible applications that work out of the box - 
the contrib CD is where we can find the wacky stuff that does things 
like display your filesystem as 3d towerblocks, compute the rainfall 
for New Zealand or play a game in which you are a space pilot who has 
to battle heroically against the screen freezing.  Contrib breaks the 
predicatble boredom of the download CDs and reminds us what computing 
is really about!

Sir Robin

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