On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 17:47 -0500, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:20, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > > > >> ... > >> > >> And just what the heck are "delta iso's"? Don't even have a clue what > >> your talking about! > >> > > > > Perhaps the term "difference ISO" would be more suggestive? They're a > > file that tells the program "applydeltaiso" how to modify an existing > > ISO file to produce a new one. Hence, "delta", a commonly used > > mathematical term for "change." > > > > They're useful when the changes are small by comparison to either > > version of the ISO file itself. > > > > On the other hand, it often takes hours for applydeltaiso to complete! > > > > > > > >> - - > >> Billie Walsh > >> > > > > > > Randall Schulz > > > Oh. OK. I sort of understand. When I use Yast to update or install > something it says "applying delta" during the install a lot of the time. > Kind of like that.
Yes, kinda like that. By using the delta iso's you only need to download the difference between an already downloaded DVD and the new one. That way you download a much smaller file. In my case I downloaded the delta iso for the 10.2 alpha3 dvd and only needed to download 367M instead of nearly 4G. The time saved was less even when calculating the time it took to run applydeltaiso. The complete command is: applydeltaiso old_iso delta_iso new_iso Burn the new iso to a dvd and install the latest version. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
