I just noticed that the FC2t3 anacoda tries to mount the CDROM before it goes to the network, even if a network install method is given. Is there a good reason for this that I'm overlooking?
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
I just noticed that the FC2t3 anacoda tries to mount the CDROM before it goes to the network, even if a network install method is given. Is there a good reason for this that I'm overlooking?
So that you can use a CD with a stage2.img and not have to download it. Nice for FTP/HTTP installs as you get the packages over the network but don't have the memory overhead of the 70 meg stage2.img in a ramdisk.
Jeremy
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:53:51PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
I just noticed that the FC2t3 anacoda tries to mount the CDROM before it goes to the network, even if a network install method is given. Is there a good reason for this that I'm overlooking?
So that you can use a CD with a stage2.img and not have to download it. Nice for FTP/HTTP installs as you get the packages over the network but don't have the memory overhead of the 70 meg stage2.img in a ramdisk.
I guess that makes sense. :)
On the downside, that'd make the net install image not fit on a 30MB business-card CD. :)
I guess it doesn't hurt to have the check there.
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 17:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:53:51PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
I just noticed that the FC2t3 anacoda tries to mount the CDROM before it goes to the network, even if a network install method is given. Is there a good reason for this that I'm overlooking?
So that you can use a CD with a stage2.img and not have to download it. Nice for FTP/HTTP installs as you get the packages over the network but don't have the memory overhead of the 70 meg stage2.img in a ramdisk.
I guess that makes sense. :)
On the downside, that'd make the net install image not fit on a 30MB business-card CD. :)
No, but it does fit on some of the other small form factor CDs. The rescue CD can be used for this purpose.
I guess it doesn't hurt to have the check there.
And it can be quite useful :-)
Jeremy
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 06:44:09PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On the downside, that'd make the net install image not fit on a 30MB business-card CD. :)
No, but it does fit on some of the other small form factor CDs. The rescue CD can be used for this purpose.
I guess it doesn't hurt to have the check there.
And it can be quite useful :-)
Yeah, I'll have to think about that. 70MB is an awful lot to transfer, especially since we've got a lot of buildings with cat3 and 10bT.
Yeah, I'll have to think about that. 70MB is an awful lot to transfer, especially since we've got a lot of buildings with cat3 and 10bT.
Here's a nickel, kid, go buy yourself some networking equipment... :)
but seriously if they're on 10bT then they're used to things being slow.
-sv
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:21:20PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
Yeah, I'll have to think about that. 70MB is an awful lot to transfer, especially since we've got a lot of buildings with cat3 and 10bT.
Here's a nickel, kid, go buy yourself some networking equipment... :) but seriously if they're on 10bT then they're used to things being slow.
Ha. I should mention that *my* office is one of these. I offered to buy them a new switch, but no luck. :)
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