Debian style net-install ISOs (from FudCON Raleigh)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 00:10:56 UTC 2008
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> said:
>> Imagine something like the rescue image (heck, this is only a slight
>> tweak) with the following modifications:
>
> Really it is just adding the base and updates URLs; that's all that is
> different. Instead of a kickstart, maybe just have anaconda suggest the
> standard mirrorlist URLs for HTTP/FTP installs.
>
>> I imagine the bandwidth savings for Fedora could be huge
>
> Doubtful. That DVD download is usually used more than once, while all
> network installs will always download a whole lot of stuff each time.
Reasonable proxy behavior would mostly fix that. But, it's hard to beat
an rsync or bitorrent download of an image to an nfs-exported directory
followed by an nfs install.
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Les Mikesell
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