minimal boot media...

Mike Chalmers mikechalmers70 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 17:09:17 UTC 2007


On 6/10/07, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:51:03 Mike Chalmers wrote:
> > On 6/10/07, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:43:57 Mike Chalmers wrote:
> > > > On 6/10/07, Alexander Boström <abo at kth.se> wrote:
> > > > > It's the boot.iso file in the images directory on any of the Fedora
> > > > > FTP mirrors. (I'm sure there's a list fo those on the Fedora
> > > > > website.) Burn it to a CD, boot off of it. It'll ask you for the path
> > > > > to an FTP mirror and download the rets from there during
> > > > > installation. That's all you need.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, that is where I get stuck when it asks me for the link and the
> > > > path to the ftp mirror. I don't know what to type in??? Thanks.
> > >
> > > host: download.fedora.redhat.com
> > > folder: /pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/${basearch}/os
> > >
> > > or you can use the path from a mirror closer to you.
> >
> > thanks I am about to try it... I will let y'all know what happens
>
> this install method worked flawlessly for me, but it took a while. remember to
> replace ${basearch} with your architecture (i386, x86_64, etc.)
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Anthony, I tried it and it worked up until the installation. Then it
gave me an error message saying that a file was corrupt at the very
beginning of the installation and recommended trying a different ftp
site. Would you be kind enough to give me several host sites and
folders to try? Thanks :-)




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