Mike Chalmers:
My question is how do I find the host and folder from a mirror when
I
am trying to do a install by using the internet?
Browse to the fedora website, follow the download mirrors link, and you
end up at: <
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/>
Pick a mirror, drill down until you see the files I listed previously:
Fedora/ 27-May-2007 10:30 -
GPL 26-May-2007 02:25 18K
RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html 26-May-2007 02:25 154K
RPM-GPG-KEY 27-May-2007 10:40 1.9K
RPM-GPG-KEY-beta 27-May-2007 10:40 1.7K
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 27-May-2007 10:40 1.5K
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide 27-May-2007 10:40 1.1K
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test 27-May-2007 10:40 1.1K
RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide 27-May-2007 10:40 1.2K
fedora.css 27-May-2007 10:40 2.8K
images/ 27-May-2007 10:40 -
isolinux/ 27-May-2007 17:22 -
repodata/ 27-May-2007 17:22 -
stylesheet-images/ 27-May-2007 17:22 -
Look at the address in the browser, the domain name is the host (the
dotted address between the protocol, http://, and the first slash), the
rest of the URI is the folder.
For instance, picking on the one at the top of the list:
<
http://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/>
host: ftp.univie.ac.at
folder: /systems/linux/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/
You need to do this before starting the installation, so that you can
jot down the details.
Perhaps the network install routine could do with including a basic
browser, or letting you do some sort of "yum install" incantation, and
having it find the details for you.
--
[tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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