David Bolt wrote:
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Basil Chupin
wrote:- Could someone please provide the answer to this question: if I was to download the ISOs for Alpah4 would I expect to have this alpha progressively upgraded in the same way as an official release to ultimately become Alpha 5 or Beta1 and so on until it becomes the official release 10.2?
So far[0] that's the method I've been using. To date, the only times where I've needed fresh installs have been the initial 10.2alpha1 and where the upgrade failed on a virtual machine. In the latter case, I needed to install on real hardware due to alpha3 and alpha4 both failing to install.
Or would I have to download a complete alpha5 ISOs or beta1 et alia if I wanted to keep up with the progress in 10.2?
You can download the delta.isos and use applydeltaiso[1] to build the full images. Present difference is 3.3GB for the alpha4 ISOs and 507MB for the alpha3->alpha4 deltas.
The only thing you'll need to do is make sure you keep a copy if the previous ISO images so you can recreate the newer images. It may be possible, although I haven't tested this as yet, to use a /dev/cdrom as the old ISO in place of an image file.
[0] through 10.0 betas, 10.1 alphas and betas and, with the exceptions above the 10.2 alphas.
[1] installed as a part of the deltarpm package. Command used is:
applydeltaiso
Regards, David Bolt
Thank you for this most valuable information! Duly saved, and printed for future reference. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1