Mageia 2 dualarch Beta 1?2

[scsijon]

Hopefully, the beta 2 release !will have a 'dualarch' cd available.

I'm willing to test across multiple boxes when it is.

Current beta is not possible due to the overall size and me being on sat. and a 6gig/month plan.

Otherwise, if the 'beta 1 dualarch co-ordinator' is willing to send me a url and list, i'm quite willing to download the components individually and start work from there.

regards

scsijon

[morgano]

What you want can be done completely automatically and optimally
You will do less downloading than a CD.
I am doing this already, I am also on a limited connection.

On one of your machines that is most on, install urpmi-proxy.

Get only the cauldron boot.iso, dump it to USB-stick, boot, and during first questions there is a question about where to install from; specify your urpmi-proxy machine.
Then you get the most recent installer, and most recent packages, while only downloading packages you need.

And next time you install urpmi-proxy will fetch them from disk if no newer version exist - if it exist it will fetch it.

Of course if you have more than one mga1 machine, set them to use urpmi-proxy too, so you save bandwidth there too.
(Actually, best to do this first so you see urpmi-proxy is working OK.)