Mageia forum

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

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.)