Re: shell prompt during install

[Andrew Pimlott <pimlott abel MATH HARVARD EDU>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC wrote:
> Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > 
> > I tried switching virtual consoles and noticed that while there was
> > diagnostic information on consoles 3 and 4, there was no "Press enter for a
> > shell prompt" on console 2, as I had seen on every previous RedHat install.
> > In fact, I couldn't even switch to console 2.
> 
> It's not active yet.
> I can get there after the 2nd stage starts :)

Darn darn darn.  I'm used the the old supplemental disk, which (according
to my fuzzy memory) provided a shell prompt before connecting to the
archive.

Is there a way to tell the installer I want to get the files for the second 
stage from one archive, but the bulk of the packages from another?

Basically, I need to do some fiddling before I get a connection to the
Internet.  I'm happy to download enough files to get to stage 2 to a 
machine on the local network (the base/ directory and maybe the 
instimage/ directory, I presume), but not all the packages.  So I want to 
pop in the boot disk, point it at a local archive, proceed until I get a 
shell prompt, futz and fiddle with the network setup, then point the 
installer at an external RedHat mirror for the rest of the install.

Can this easily be done with RedHat 6.0?

(I realize at this point that it's probably easiest just to configure a
local proxy server, since the installer seems to support proxies.  I'll
probably do that.)

Thanks much for your quick reply,
Andrew