installation via internet

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 17:26:34 UTC 2007


On 3/25/07, Michael A Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 17:42 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
>
> >
> > > Don't know that a net install is possible with respins though.
> >
> > Why not? The re-spins are structured the same as the regular FC
> > distributions. I have had no problem with doing a NFS install using
> > the Fedora Unity .iso off my server.
> >
>
> Because a net install needs a package source, and unless they have set
> up the equivalent to what mirrors have for FC6 network install, it won't
> find the packages as it will look in core and not updates (and if it
> does look in updates, some of the packages have changed since then and
> are no longer there).
>
> By doing an NFS install, you are providing that for yourself. But I
> don't think any of the mirrors provide ability for the respin net
> install.
>

The question was whether a net install using a respin is possible. The
answer is most definitely a "yes". I did not state that Fedora Unity
or any "Fedora" group provided a server for that purpose.




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