minimal boot media...

[Tim]

Mike Chalmers:
> My question is how do I find the host and folder from a mirror when I
> am trying to do a install by using the internet?

Browse to the fedora website, follow the download mirrors link, and you
end up at: <http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/>

Pick a mirror, drill down until you see the files I listed previously:

 Fedora/                     27-May-2007 10:30   -
 GPL                         26-May-2007 02:25   18K
 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html    26-May-2007 02:25   154K
 RPM-GPG-KEY                 27-May-2007 10:40   1.9K
 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta            27-May-2007 10:40   1.7K
 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora          27-May-2007 10:40   1.5K
 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide  27-May-2007 10:40   1.1K
 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test     27-May-2007 10:40   1.1K
 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide         27-May-2007 10:40   1.2K
 fedora.css                  27-May-2007 10:40   2.8K
 images/                     27-May-2007 10:40   -
 isolinux/                   27-May-2007 17:22   -
 repodata/                   27-May-2007 17:22   -
 stylesheet-images/          27-May-2007 17:22   -

Look at the address in the browser, the domain name is the host (the
dotted address between the protocol, http://, and the first slash), the
rest of the URI is the folder.

For instance, picking on the one at the top of the list:
<http://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/>

host:  ftp.univie.ac.at
folder:  /systems/linux/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/

You need to do this before starting the installation, so that you can
jot down the details.

Perhaps the network install routine could do with including a basic
browser, or letting you do some sort of "yum install" incantation, and
having it find the details for you.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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