minimal boot media...
Mike Chalmers
mikechalmers70 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 07:09:11 UTC 2007
On 7/29/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
>
>
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This is exactly what I needed. Thanks Tim. I will give it a shot when
I got my computer back. Thanks.
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