On 06/04/2017 10:29 AM, Jos Vos wrote: > Hi, > > Do CentOS 7 installs not automatically use a closest mirror for > installing like Fedora does, or is that due to the way I'm starting > the install (virt-install)? > > Background: > > I'm trying to find the best way to do installs using basic local media > (network install, but *without* the need to download the squashfs.img > for every install) but without a full local mirror. On Fedora (25), > it works fine using a local boot.iso (virt-install -l), but with > CentOS 7 you then have to manually enter a repository URL. > > I also tried a local kernel/pxeboot tree with LiveOS/squashfs.img > (the latter similar to Fedora's install.img?) with no result. > Yes but .. closest mirror only gets as detailed as per country. If you want to add a local mirror to that, then a yum config file change to add a baseurl to the repo file would be required. Then fastestmirror would pick the fastest from mirrorlist (10-15 listed machines per country) and the added local mirror, which would always be fastest unless it was offline, etc.
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