Debian style net-install ISOs (from FudCON Raleigh)

[Les Mikesell]

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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