Shtt!!

[John Summerfield]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:38:28AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>> That assumes one knows it's necessary. It's going to catch a lot of  
>> other experienced users.
> 
> I wonder how difficult it would be (not being a programmer, 
> I don't know if I'm suggesting something trivial or major, 
> to have some sort of note during the installation dialog itself, to the
> point of if you want to specify your own URL, reboot with askmethod.
> (Or the type of note we used to get in installs, saying type text to do
> textmode, askmethod to do whatever, etc.)
> 
> I repeat, I have no idea if this is easy to do or not. 

Better to leave the choice available. Complete it with a default value 
by all means.

> 
> It's difficult to figure out what are major changes that should be
> widely broadcast, and what aren't--the trouble is that we tend, I
> suspect, to not think about things *we* don't use. 

True. Those with ADSL think everyone has abundant bandwidth.

I'm on my IAP's top plan; a consequence of this change is that I'm 
likely to be throttled for the last week of December, I'm often near the 
limit as it is.




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