Fedora Core 2 Distribution Size
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 5 14:47:40 UTC 2004
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> Essentially, using a network install (as mentioned here) would be just
> as slow as downloading the ISOs from a mirror? Not a pleasant option,
> even with broadband.
Not really. You wouldn't download ALL of the packages if you were doing
a network install. You'd only install the ones you selected.
it is rare that someone installs EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE.
> The last time I did a network install was with RH5.2 way back when, on
> my then cable modem. Not fun - a basic install took all night to run,
> and I've never touched network installs since (off the Internet. I do
> network installs off a LAN frequently).
You need to look up better mirrors.
> I hardly know anything of the internal workings of Anaconda, but
> perhaps there is a way to do network installs of bittorrent shares?
> Now THAT would be interesting!
Extremely hard, in fact. Bittorrent normally hosts only the isos, not
each package.
-sv
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