Install FC3 with 2.6.10

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Jan 12 23:21:14 UTC 2005


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, malcolm northcott wrote:

> I think there is a deeper issue here. I just downloaded FC3 from bit-
> torrent. Initial download happened overnight, install took about half an
> hour, applying all the updates took several attempts over about 48
> hours. I suppose I could have streamlined this by snarfing 
> all the updates by FTP rather than using up2date, but I didnt. This
> problem only gets worse as the number of updates piles up.
> 	The obvious solution would be to produce updated installation
> iso's every couple of months. I can understand the lack of motivation
> for anyone to actually do this.....

Or use a more sane 'mirrorlist' instead of the default - which could
take you to the opposite end of the globe..

Satish




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