New Install Idea

[Robert Spangler]

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On Saturday 29 January 2005 13:45, Matthew Miller wrote:

>  > Fedora and Red Hat have had this for ages.
>  > Download the boot.iso from your friendly Fedora mirror and burn it to CD
>  > (or diskboot.img and write it to USB pen). Boot from it, and it should
>  > give you the option of NFS, FTP or HTTP installs.
>
>  Except, it doesn't install the newest versions, unless you've gone out of
>  your way to rebuild a repository containing them. Normally, you still have
>  to do updates after the installation is complete.

And there in lies my point.  I would like to be able to DL a boot cd that 
would give me the options to choose a mirror close to me and install all the 
files from there hence receiving all the latest software without having to 
update everything after the install is finished.

The only reason I bring this up is because last night i re-installed FC3 
because of a problem I could not fix.  I like being able to use the DVD ISO 
but then it took another ~1 hr to do all the updates.  Would have been nice 
to boot from a boot cd and then choose what I wanted and not have to run yum 
to update everything after a freash install.

Hey it was just food for thought.  Maybe someday it will arrive. :)


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Regards
Robert

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