Split Media - A use case

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 16:44:50 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:36 -0600, Avery, David [DENTK] wrote:
> 
> Use case :
> PIII 950Mhz system CDROM installed , no DVD, NO USB boot option , no PXE
> boot option, local network does not allow DHCP server ( corp rules)
> , local net is firewalled from internet via (http | ftp) proxy
> 
> 
> Yes it's old
> It was running F10 
> It _Needs_ split CD to install
> Anaconda takes forever because it won't accept proxy info and has to
> mutiply time out trying to access unreachable network mirrors

Do you have access to a USB DVDrom?  You can start the install with
netboot.iso and use the DVD as install source via usb once the installer
starts.

Alternatively, why not use the Live CD image?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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