Oh I agree. What would be REALLY slick is that not only does the installation allow you to copy the files to a "standardized" location on your harddrive, but that the installation would install MandrakeUpdateRobot Server, and then flag and download the any bug or security patches.
This is mostly for an environment where you are using ONE server as the master for installing Mandrake throughout the server farm or organization. That way, you are ALWAYS installing the correct version of something on a clean installation. Somehow the installation scripts need to allow you choose a base installation, or a patched installation. Devin. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jake R. Magee Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for install routine 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.
