Fedora 7 media sets
Jane Dogalt
jdogalt at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 16 17:06:07 UTC 2007
--- Joachim Frieben <jfrieben at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > No, I haven't, but right now, I do not see how one would reduce
> > > download volume by downloading packages and creating install
> media
> > > locally instead of downloading the media in the first place ..
> (?)
> >
> > You download the needed packages once and use them to create
> multiple
> > media sets, instead of downloading multiple media sets which
> contain
> > duplicated data.
>
> So what? The same holds for downloading the image files [(1 x "Core"
> + 1 X "Extras") / arch] and extracting packages locally at will to
> recompose them for a custom install class [At least if you feel the
> need to do so. Using an appropriate kickstart file would do the job
> as well without tinkering with the install media. So, I wonder what
> this spin frenzy is about]. ...
Its about inheritance and variety. In a way that IMO more
intuitively/intelligently integrates the kickstart file(s) with the
install media.
-dmc/jdog
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