Shtt!!

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Dec 2 16:35:44 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 06:30 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > Why on earth does Fedora ten not give me the chance to specify an install Server?  I downloaded the network install CD as that's the quickest way to get a portable (between home and office) network install up. I thought.
> >
> > I have a copy of F10 on my LAN and Anaconda's downloading across the country. This is bizarre. Bad for my install time, bad for my internet bandwidth (1.5 M<bits vs 100 Mbits), bad for my download quota and bad for my Internet Access Provider (who has a copy too!).
> >
> Have you tried booting with "askmethod"?

askmethod is a large hammer to use for this situation, though it will
certainly work.  Better just to edit the URLs for the repos in the UI.
Saves you the time/bandwidth of having to download the second stage of
the installer as opposed to just using it off of the cd

Jeremy




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