FC5 anaconda
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Mar 1 15:04:24 UTC 2005
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:49:23PM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
> Thanks, that provides some info but I suspect that a lot of words were
> spoken which added a lot more info.
Yeah; hopefully the video feed will be up soon.
> I believe I understand how this will (could) all work for an Internet
> connected system where, basically, you do a network install for a lot of
> that packages (especially those in Fedora Extras). However, how about the
> unconnected system? What is the thinking on how it will handle installing
> everything from CD or DVD images? Will there be CD and/or DVD iso images
> for Extras or will we need to roll our own?
I'm hoping for the multiple-extras-flavors (Extras:Java / Extras:Games /
Extras:Whatever), which could each have CDs. But I think that network
install is going to be more and more the way.
> Even for Internet connected systems, if you have a number of systems to do
> installs on, you do not want to have to download the packages for each
> system ... you (or at least I) want to download the packages once and then
> do installs on all of the systems.
Caching proxy. :) Or, make your own local mirror.
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