RC2 deltaiso for netinst does not work

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri May 17 22:45:30 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 18:40 -0400, Bob Lightfoot wrote:
> On 05/17/2013 03:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 12:16 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> >> On 05/17/2013 10:45 AM, John Reiser wrote:
> >>> The file
> >>>    http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/deltaisos/19-Beta-RC2/From_19-Beta-RC1/i386/Fedora-19-Beta-RC2-i386-DVD_netinst.diso
> >>> with size:
> >>>    -rw-rw-r--. 1 user group     22877 May 17 06:16 Fedora-19-Beta-RC2-i386-DVD_netinst.diso
> >>>    -rw-rw-r--. 1 user group 365953024 May 16 05:26 Fedora-19-Beta-i386-netinst.iso
> >>
> >> That file is actually only 23KB, not MB!
> >> I'm pretty sure they don't make diso files for the netinst images, but I 
> >> have no idea what that file is for.
> > 
> > It is a delta not from one netinst to the next, but from the DVD to the
> > netinst image, so that if you have the DVD, you can generate the netinst
> > and save a ~300MB download.
> > 
> Adam is correct the DVD.diso for from one DVD to the next.  The
> Netisntall.diso if from DVD to netinstall.
> 
> I can also vouch that all 4 disos do in fact work.

Andre's going to change the naming scheme on the disos a bit to
hopefully make this slightly clearer.
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