Re: MINIMUM install files to download?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Mahalko <mahalkdp knight cvfn org>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 8:50 PM
Subject: MINIMUM install files to download?


>The FAQ's say I need to download the installation files for
>RedHat. The problem is, there is no clear limit as to what
>constitutes the "installation file set".
>
>Does this mean absolutely everything in
>  ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.0/i386
>
>And if so, there is a problem.. that whole works contains
>"UNIX sym links" to files elsewhere in the install set..
>"../i386/misc/src/*" contains bunches of UNIX links, which
>ftp.cdrom.com doesn't seem to have a clue how to handle.
>Should I just get the link as a "link data file", or should
>it send me the actual file the link points to? (And in any
>case, some of those links don't exist on cdrom.com, but
>would on the system the links would be installed onto.)
>
>Me, I don't have a network where RedHat can download files
>by itself, nor do I have a unix file system to store these
>files. So if I'm putting these in an MSDOS filesystem,
>isn't that going to "break" all these links?
>
>But anyway, since this stuff in "misc/src" is all source, do
>I really need any of this junk anyway, since I don't plan
>to install the sourcecode?
>
>
>Furthermore, is there a way to "get away" with using an
>incomplete set of install files? For example, as an English
>speaking Wisconsinite, it seems entirely pointless and
>stupid to spend five hours downloading those how-to files
>for slovokia, chinese, french, german, etc. Can I just
>skip them and only get the english files?
>
>In my attempts so far with getting only SOME files, the
>installer is puking, saying "incomplete install set". Why
>should it care, if I am not planning to install that
>stuff anyway? Why waste another few days downloading megs
>of files I'm not going to use, just so the installer can
>feel all warm and happy about being able to find useless
>files I don't want or need?
>
>
>And one other thing. Though RedHat may be freely available
>it is not exactly easy to get off the FTP, nor is the
>download info all that clear. Of the FTP sites listed,
>there is absolutely no "location" information about WHERE
>those FTP sites are geographicly. After trying to guess
>a few times where an FTP site may happen to be, I just
>gave up and went with one I know.. ftp.cdrom.com. That FTP
>mirror listing needs geographical info added for it to be
>useful in reducing load on the Internet..
>
>-Dale
>
>
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