Shtt!!

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:35 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 06:30 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John Summerfield
> > <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > > Why on earth does Fedora ten not give me the chance to specify an install Server?  I downloaded the network install CD as that's the quickest way to get a portable (between home and office) network install up. I thought.
> > >
> > > I have a copy of F10 on my LAN and Anaconda's downloading across the country. This is bizarre. Bad for my install time, bad for my internet bandwidth (1.5 M<bits vs 100 Mbits), bad for my download quota and bad for my Internet Access Provider (who has a copy too!).
> > >
> > Have you tried booting with "askmethod"?
> 
> askmethod is a large hammer to use for this situation, though it will
> certainly work.  Better just to edit the URLs for the repos in the UI.
> Saves you the time/bandwidth of having to download the second stage of
> the installer as opposed to just using it off of the cd
> 
> Jeremy

Since you can't edit the repos until the initial download of metadata
from said repos, it can often be nicer to use the 'repo=uri' boot time
option.  This instructs anaconda where to get the packages from, but
still allows anaconda to use the local install.img on your boot media.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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