On Thu, 18 May 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> While I agree that the *ability* to create ISO's is important, I
> personally do not see the point in making your own ISO of the beta.
> In order to be successful in creating the image you must:
>
> a) have enough hard drive space for the cooker mirror;
Naturally. I always mirror cooker, not just during beta. I like the
bleeding edge... :)
> b) still have the same amount of space left in order to create the ISO;
Not a problem. I have about 10 gig free...
> c) spend the time to burn the discs
Not terribly long on a modern CD-Writer.
> In order to keep up, you're never going to get around requirement a).
> This effectively makes an hd or network install most efficient.
Only for machines on the same LAN as the mirror. Unfortunately, the
only other machines on this LAN are NetBSD. On the other hand, I have
4 boxes at another location that run Mandrake, and 1 more at yet another
location. It's nice if I can burn CD's for them. (Why don't a have a
mirror over there? My net connection is much faster here.)
> The
> ISO's provided by Mandrake during this process are effectively
> ``snapshots'' of the distribution at a relatively stable point in
> order to give those who don't maintain a local mirror a common frame
> of reference.
But since I *do* maintain a local mirror...
> Yes, I have two CD's of the Oxygen beta from before I decided to do HD
> installs during betas. But the only CD's I now burn will be of the
> stable releases.
And if this machine (which has the mirror on it) was the only Mandrake
machine I used, I'd never burn CD's at all (well, except I also have a
few friends who get their Linux CD's from me).
