On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:35 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 06:30 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:59 PM, John Summerfield > > <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why on earth does Fedora ten not give me the chance to specify an install Server? I downloaded the network install CD as that's the quickest way to get a portable (between home and office) network install up. I thought. > > > > > > I have a copy of F10 on my LAN and Anaconda's downloading across the country. This is bizarre. Bad for my install time, bad for my internet bandwidth (1.5 M<bits vs 100 Mbits), bad for my download quota and bad for my Internet Access Provider (who has a copy too!). > > > > > Have you tried booting with "askmethod"? > > askmethod is a large hammer to use for this situation, though it will > certainly work. Better just to edit the URLs for the repos in the UI. > Saves you the time/bandwidth of having to download the second stage of > the installer as opposed to just using it off of the cd > > Jeremy Since you can't edit the repos until the initial download of metadata from said repos, it can often be nicer to use the 'repo=uri' boot time option. This instructs anaconda where to get the packages from, but still allows anaconda to use the local install.img on your boot media. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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