On 12/29/06, Bayrouni <bayrouni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 13:31 +0100, Bayrouni wrote: > > >> Which CDs are needed for minimal install, but enabling the network so I >> can use yUm to install others programs? >> > > If you just want do do things the once, to avoid downloading BIG ISO > files. You could download the small rescue ISO, and do a network > installation of the whole thing. I've done that, and think that it took > less time to download the packages that were actually going to be > installed, and install them. Instead of downloading three entire 650 > meg ISO discs, and installing just some packages from them. > > I wouldn't recommend that approach if you were going to install to > several machines, unless you set up your own caching proxy, in between. > > > > Thank you, for this information. It is just for one machine, so I shall download the rescue iso. I don't need big programs like ooo kde and so on, just small ones, like fluxbox, mplayer and some others. Thank you -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Instead of downloading the rescue CD (unless you actually want to keep that around for later) you could download the boot.iso image from the release and go from there. This file is just 8M compared to the 85M for the rescue CD. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/images/boot.iso
