18 Alpha TC3 DVD defaulting to networked install

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 13:58:43 UTC 2012


> I looked under "Installation Source"
> and there is a box "Don't install the latest available software updates. Install
> the default versions provided by the install source above." which is unchecked
> by default. I checked the box, but still get the same errors, so it's not
> working.

That box doesn't do anything yet.

> Aside from that, I'm not happy with the default of a networked install
> in that
> 
> 1) It's less reliable than a non-networked install because of problems like the
> one above (assuming the DVD itself has no repoclosure or file conflicts
> problems), and
> 
> 2) It means higher bandwidth use, since the default is to download updated
> packages in full, rather than installing the old version from the DVD and then
> saving bandwidth by downloading the updated version with yum-presto.

Well, obviously, it's a bug and it will get fixed.D But if you want to

- Chris


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