wget...of course. Hadn't thought of that. You just converted me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com On 29 Jan 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:04, Jim Wildman wrote: > > 1) As far as I can tell, if you don't use nfs for the kickstart file, it > > is not automatically available to you in the %post section. > > > > this is true in 7.3 - I think they put the nfs modules back in for > phoebe. > > I just use http or https via wget for %posts anyway - makes things fast > > > 2) Speed. Apparent anyway. I have not measured it. > > umm http can be MUCH faster - especially on a partially loaded or noisy > network. > > tcp can really make up for the speed differences. > > > I've switched entirely to http-based installs and %posts b/c it's just > cleaner - mainly b/c it means I can do an install from anywhere that can > reach an http server - which is typically trivial to make happen. > > -sv > >
