On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/10/2011 10:47 AM, suvayu ali wrote: >> My question was, even if you manage to install F16 on a machine the 50 >> MB download limit might block some updates. Although most package >> updates are small some like libreoffice-core can be substantially >> large. If from past experience you know this will not be a problem, >> then my proposal was to do a netinstall. > > Assuming that you get Fedora 16 installed in the first place, you can > always install the presto plugin for yum. I doubt that any of the delta > rpms would be big enough to be an issue. > > It occurs to me that there might be a way to sidestep the main issue. > I'm guessing that the 50 MB limit is imposed to keep students from > wasting bandwidth on movies, pirated software and other things of that > nature. If so, it might be possible to talk to the admin and either get > a one-time exception or (more likely) arrange for the admin to > download/burn the .iso for you. The latter case has the advantage that > nobody else gets to say, "But you did it for *him!*" > -- well I managed to do it with the methods Frank pointed out. So need of a admin :-) > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- Best Regards, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda http://about.me/callkalpa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
