On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > We _really_ ought to document network installs more prominently. Far too > > many people just aren't aware that it's possible, and they keep using > > those horrid unreliable round shiny things. > > I prefer physical CD and DVD at the beginning of a test cycle. > I have 2 machines (desktop, laptop) of the same $ARCH to install; > I also have to re-do installs that break, which is likely > for Test-1 of a cycle. I find that downloading the whole DVD > (via DSL torrent @ 150KB/s) saves me time beginning with the > third install. Network installs are for Test-3. I think David means doing it from a local mirror. Download rawhide to a spare machine and you can install over NFS. There are certainly cases where mirroring rawhide is prohibitively expensive, but it is certainly a viable option with disk space and bandwidth to spare. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
