Minimal Boot Media?
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jul 13 00:52:12 UTC 2007
Mike - EMAIL IGNORED: (network *installing*)
> OK I did it, and used the URL:
>
> http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/YUM/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/
>
> which I selected because it is a Fedora mirror, probably under
> 100 miles from my computers, and responded rapidly when I looked
> at it with my browser. My screen now shows "Starting install
> process. This may take several minutes...". As of 14:16-0400,
> it has said this for about the last two hours. Am I too
> impatient? There are occasional signs of life.
I found doing a network install, like that, was faster than downloading
a huge ISO (never mind burning it, and the following steps). Probably,
simply because you download only what you really use.
But there's a disadvantage if you have to restart, you lose what you've
done so far. Doing it through a proxy with a large cache would avoid
that problem, though. That was how I used to do multiple Windows
updates.
> I have just installed my own ftp "mirror" on a Win2k box on my
> LAN. Do you think this would be faster?
Yes, because it's local. Most LANs are faster than most ISPs, including
broadband.
--
[tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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