On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 00:51, Damon Lynch wrote: > Hi again Mandrake developers, > > Here is a possible option during install: > > "Would you like to save all the packages from the installation CDs on > your hard drive (will use x.x GB)?" > > With massive hard drives these days it is often convenient to save the > contents of the CDs locally and get rpmdrake to use these packages, and > not from the CDs. That's what I do now. It would save a bit of messing > around if this step was automated during install. Furthermore you could > also ask: > > "When security updates and bug fixes are downloaded, should these > packages be stored locally after installation for possible future use?" This would be great for us on a slow connection, so that if we have to reinstall or install on a different computer we can already have the updates and not have to re-download again.
> You could ask that question when a source is setup.
