Hello, I'd like to tell everyone what a wonderful version 9 is. I've impressed several friends with it and provided cds to them for installation on their computers. The installation and packaging of this distribution is first rate! Recently I had the misfortune of being required to install RH7.3 on a computer at school and re-discovered the problems other distros are having with their installation procedures. I must say that even with all the *oopses* that have been found in 9 since release, things could be alot worse. Your installation / configuration scripts and wizards have raised the bar among distros and provided the Linux community with a sure leader.
My one request with packaging is this; Would someone please create a script that would create a set of ISO images from the cooker and contrib archives ? Warly has done a great job with mkcd but judging by the lack of documentation and confusion regarding use of the script, something could be done to make the 'packaging' of ISO images simple, even to newbies. The mkcd script seems to be a generalized tool created more for the internal use of Mandrake than for a 'userland' tool. I for one would love to have a simple script that took the files from a cooker mirror (local or remote) and made a set of ISO images. If I remember correctly, Debian has a script that does this (I've never used Debian). I read that by using rsync to download packages instead of whole ISO images, you save tremendous amounts of bandwidth. Maybe someone you know could whip together a simple script that with the change of a variable could use either a local mirror or a remote one and save the internet resources we've all become dependant on. -- Sincerely, Trent M. Gunnarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
