How to download a file without installing?

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 20 April 2008 03:49:10 Andrew Farris wrote:
> The kernel parameter should be a 3 character, not a '3' as I said,
> unfortunately its hard to say some of these things clearly without using an
> example (so as I should have done.. it should be like this):
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-1.fc9.i686 ro
> root=UUID=8301cc68-612d-41d0-9e05-112d8fd6bc9d quiet 3
>
Yes, I did understand that, and that's exactly what I did.  I can't explain 
why this doesn't work on that laptop, but it's reliably repeatable.

> Without a network connection you can only use rpm to install (rpm -i).  I
> hope you worked this out or got a fresh install done.

So far I've had no success with rpm either, but a friend has given me a few 
more possibilities to try.  I'll report back later today.

The other option is to get the recent preview downloaded.  If I can't crack it 
today I may have to try that.  My desktop box has been running rawhide for a 
couple of weeks, with several problems, most of which are now resolved.  I'll 
be keeping that one, but the old laptop is purely for testing purposes.

Anne
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