Shtt!!

[John Summerfield]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:35 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Since you can't edit the repos until the initial download of metadata
> from said repos, it can often be nicer to use the 'repo=uri' boot time
> option.  This instructs anaconda where to get the packages from, but
> still allows anaconda to use the local install.img on your boot media.

That assumes one knows it's necessary. It's going to catch a lot of 
other experienced users.

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John

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