Hi, Gina: Georgina Joyce writes: > I've read quite a bit on your site but haven't seen anything about a net > install option. Although, it's not what I was looking for at the time. > I know that there are speakup users who will welcome having the net > install option. > It's actually been there for quite some time. Anyone who remembers the "Where's your installation media?" screen from the Fedora install might recall there are options to install over nfs and httpd along with the more traditional cd rom and hard-drive options. It seems Fedora has begun promoting this consciousness, and that's a good thing because the presence of yum in the installation scripts means that the installer can pull the very latest rpm packages from across the net, if they're newer than the rpms on the DVD, for instance. Of course, you might not want to do that if there are a lot of newer rpms to pull and your Internet connection isn't the fastest. Indeed, I think even an ADSL connection is questionable for more than a few dozen rpms. Still, you may be interested to know that this is how we installed Fedora on our SpeakupModified.Org server. That machine lives in a data center in Houston, Texas where we get really fast connections to the Internet. Since we installed at our new server before SpeakupModified images were available, we installed across http. We modified our grub.conf to start the install kernel and initrd for telnet access, just as our mini-howto about using telnet to install recommends. When it came time to choose where to get the installation media we specified the redhat.com site which is actually thousands of miles removed from our physical location. It took under half an hour to effect the installation--that's how good our connection is. > Well done for putting speakup users in front for a change. > Congratulations!!!!!!! Thanks, but that part of the job and praise belongs to Bill Acker, and I join you in it. I'm just the documenatrix around here! <grin> Janina
