Hello, Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 02:58 schrieb Terje J. Hanssen:
Anders Johansson wrote: [...]
get the delta files, and you'll have beta 3 [...] If I understand the things right, one has to merge (upgrade) each b2 iso with the respective b3 delta-iso to make the complete b3 isos,
yes.
which still has to be burned on 5 CDs?
yes - but you can also do an http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD ;-)
Is an Upgrade installation then ok or is a New installation necessary?
After applying the delta-isos, you get exactly the iso images you can download also. Therefore you can do what you want with them, including a upgrade installation. [1]
Maybe there also exist a document that describes this applydeltaiso procedure in detail?
From usage view, it is quite simple: applydeltaiso old.iso delta.iso new.iso There's a README in /usr/share/doc/packages/deltarpm that explains some details and some man pages Note that there are some more programs around deltarpm/deltaiso: # rpm -ql deltarpm |grep bin/ /usr/bin/applydeltaiso /usr/bin/applydeltarpm /usr/bin/combinedeltarpm /usr/bin/drpmsync /usr/bin/makedeltaiso /usr/bin/makedeltarpm Regards, Christian Boltz [1] Upgrade installation doesn't work in beta4, but that's another story ;-) -- "Hast du schon gehoert: Ein Bug im Netscape Navigator erlaubt es jedem, übers Internet deine Festplatte zu lesen." - "Weiss ich, deshalb bleibe ich ja auch bei Netscape - wenn's ein Microsoft-Bug waere, dann dürfte jeder meine Festplatte auch noch beschreiben..."