How to download a file without installing?

[Andrew Farris]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 April 2008 20:22, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> You can also add a '3' to the end of your kernel parameters in grub before
>> you boot (edit at the grub menu for just that one time), which will get you
>> to runlevel 3 and just work in the virtual terminal until you've got the
>> network up and running (or at least the rpm installed).
>>
> Unfortunately none of these methods were successful.  Adding '3' didn't boot 
> to level 3!  The method involving ftp to a mirror is out - I don't have a 
> connection.  Using Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a terminal and I tried the yum 
> command from there.  It said it couldn't retrieve the mirrorlist, and 
> couldn't retrieve repository metadata.  Attempting to install from a 
> graphical file manager says that local installs are not supported.  End of 
> road, I'm afraid.

The kernel parameter should be a 3 character, not a '3' as I said, unfortunately 
its hard to say some of these things clearly without using an example (so as I 
should have done.. it should be like this):
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-1.fc9.i686 ro 
root=UUID=8301cc68-612d-41d0-9e05-112d8fd6bc9d quiet 3

Without a network connection you can only use rpm to install (rpm -i).  I hope 
you worked this out or got a fresh install done.

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