reducing distribution CD count

[Ron Yorston]

Seth Vidal wrote:
>So, just to make sure I understand, yum doesn't work for you?
>
>You can't run: yum install bzflag2 tuxracer ?

Good question, let's try it:

   $ yum install bzflag tuxracer
   You need to be root to perform this command.

Oh dear!  Fortunately I have root on this machine:

   $ su
   Password:
   # yum install bzflag tuxracer
   Setting up Install Process
   Setting up Repo:  base
   ftp://janus/fc3/base/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
   Trying other mirror.
   Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
   failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
   #

Oh dear!  I'm not on a network.

Seth Vidal also wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:53 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>How about: internet access only from work, monitored downloads, no CD
>>burning permitted, small amount of web browsing tolerated?
>
>so how did the user get fedora to begin with!?

>From a magazine cover CD?  Via snail mail from a mail order supplier?

One day everyone will have gigabit wireless networking everywhere.
Until that happy day some people have to use computers with poor to
non-existent network connectivity.  Any solution that excludes them
is incomplete.

Ron