On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 05:19:33PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
>
> 3] One complicated solution would be to not destroy
> /var/cache/apt/archive on the target when re-installing. It could be
> done by having the installer suggest to mount that folder on its own
> partition, and then have the installer refer to it at the download stage.

You'd have to be able to check that the /var/cache was for the same
distro as the one you were testing.

-- hendrik