New Install Idea

[David Curry]

Robert Spangler wrote:

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>On Saturday 29 January 2005 13:45, Matthew Miller wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Hey it was just food for thought.  Maybe someday it will arrive. :)
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>Regards
>Robert
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>Smile... it increases your face value!
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There were some recent exchanges on this list addressing the howtos of 
constructing updated isos of Fedora Core releases under subject thread  
Re: Upgrading kernel in ISO images. Making new isos available for a 
release, say, when the followon release is issued or when passed to the 
Fedora Legacy Project sounds like a worthwhile project to me.  If I ever 
progress beyond linux neophyte status I might be able to act on that 
thought. :)