InstantMirror needs a rethink

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 17:33:29 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>>> I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how to accomplish the same 
>>> thing for an anaconda install (kickstart or regular).
>>
>> We'll hopefully be having some proxy support within the second stage[1]
>> in Fedora 9
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> [1] This means that you'll need to be booting from the
>> to-be-renamed-rescuecd.iso as opposed to boot.iso or at least have a
>> direct URL to a stage2.img.  But packages via a proxy is part of the
>> plan
> 
> Isn't it the plan to get rid of boot.iso entirely?

What's the alternative?  I normally prefer NFS installs from a nearby 
downloaded-but-not-burned image.  But I might change my mind if there 
were a way to pre-load a cache for an http install.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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