On Fri, 05 May 2000, you wrote:
> Hi, I want to try the new Mandrake 7.1 beta 2, what is the better way to
> do it. I'll explain myself, now I have Redhat 6.2 installed, and I want to
> kill it and to put Mandrake, the problem is I want to have the LATEST
> rpm's, so...
>
> 1: Must I download the new ISO or not?
> 2: If I download the ISO, how can I download then the packages
> that have changed, ONLY those packages?
> 3: If I try to make a mirror of some ftp, I found that the files
> are changing, so, for example, the file says that I must have a menu-...
> and that package has been removed... without a package I can do a ISO?
>
> Please help me!!! sniff...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would suggest running rsync with one of the mirrors.. for instance
ftp.sunet.se and when it finishes up you run it once more and get the changed
files. I would also recommend putting it on a spare ext2 partition that won't
take part of the installation and do a hd install..
here follows my rsync script for getting the cooker files from ftp.sunet.se
I guess it could be done alot more fancy than this but it works great.
(this script will update to the latest files and remove all old ones)
#!/bin/sh
cd /mnt/hd/mandrake/cooker
rsync -avl --delete ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/ .
