Here are just some comments about how my installation experience went. On a second computer on the local network I: Downloaded the 5 i386 CDs using bittorrent. The experience was much nicer that how I normally have downloaded the iso cds in the past. Burnt the first cd as my boot CD, then I mounted all 5 cds using: mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint> Pointed apache at these five isos so that all the contents of the 5 CDs were available at http://192.168.1.1/iso/disc[1-5]/... On the computer that I was installing FC5. Booted from disc1. At the prompt typed "linux askmethod", then chose http and pointed it at http://192.168.1.1/iso ?? Two slight oddities at this point: - At this point it said something like "Local installation media found", this was a little disconcerting since I thought it was still going to boot from the CD. This message could probably be a little clearer. - It also asks if you want to test your CDs. Why? You aren't installing from CD? After I picked all the appropriate settings it starts the install by formatting my hard drive then promptly crashing. A dialog came up and I was able to find out that it couldn't find http://192.168.1.1/iso/disc1/Fedora/RPMS/gjdoc-0.27-3.1.i386.rpm. That was because this file is actually on Disc2. I was able to fix this with apache by doing: RedirectMatch 301 /iso/disc1/Fedora/RPMS/gjdoc-0.7.7-3.1.i386.rpm /iso/disc2/Fedora/RPMS/gjdoc-0.7.7-3.1.i386.rpm On trying the install again it died again, this time on a different file. This happened on a sequence of about four files then I decided to copy all the rpms into one directory on my other machine and did: RedirectMatch 301 /iso/disc1/Fedora/RPMS/(.*) /iso/RPMS/$1 RedirectMatch 301 /iso/disc2/Fedora/RPMS/(.*) /iso/RPMS/$1 RedirectMatch 301 /iso/disc3/Fedora/RPMS/(.*) /iso/RPMS/$1 RedirectMatch 301 /iso/disc4/Fedora/RPMS/(.*) /iso/RPMS/$1 RedirectMatch 301 /iso/disc5/Fedora/RPMS/(.*) /iso/RPMS/$1 After that the installation went smoothly. And one question to finish off this email: I want to do the http install but instead of burning the first disc to a cd I would like to copy just a subset of that first CD to a USB key. Can I do this? Which files would I need to put onto the USB key? I also want to say thank you to everyone who helps with Fedora Core. So far FC5 is looking pretty nice. Nathan Bullock -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list