On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Areeda <newsre...@areeda.com> wrote: > On 07/04/2014 09:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> Please refrain from posting anything other than testing results of the >>> released SL packages in this thread. Let's keep this one free of >>> trolls. >>> >>> Akemi >> >> The SL 7 Alpha is running well in PC Virtualbox (my virtualiztion >> toolsuite of choice). The add-on tools for more graseful focus >> switching and for mouse management are not yet installable, but I >> expect that to be fixed upstream by PC Virtualbox, now that RHEL 7 is >> in production. > > I can report it also runs well in and SL6 Virtualbox VM. > > I saw the firstboot problem report. > > My question is how often should we download and reinstall from scratch vs > using yum update (or autoupdate or cron)? > > I assume the only reason to download the DVD image is to test changes to the > install procedure and yum update will end up with the same installation. > > I just want to confirm that how best to help the process.
If you're a weasel and want to save speed and bandwidth: Set up a local rsync mirror from any of the locally fast upstream repositories, and slap a web server in front of it. Use the 'netinstall' from th elocal mirror,, or even a PXE setup, not the full DVD, to point to the local mirror. Ideally, set up a kickstart file too on the local mirror, ideally tied to a the PXE setup. Then just use the PXE or netinstall ISO to do a kickstarted, network based re-install. That way, you don't even have to download the DVD images, which are quite builky. If you like, I'll post my download scripts....