Interesting debugging experiences Fedora 21 on real hardware

[Dan Mossor]

On 07/24/2014 05:59 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 22:56 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>
>> Since my "ultimate goal" is to get a (relatively) clean F21 on my
>> server, I started
>> experimenting using the Heisenbug netinst.iso with a specified repository of
>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/21/x86_64/os
>>
>> It would be most useful to be able to specify a copy of the repository
>> on a local HD:
>> /dev/sdd1/fc21/os    - but in the meantime I will have to install over
>> the net at a more
>> leisurely pace.
>
> Do you not already mirror anything in Fedora at all locally?  If not,
> you may think about setting up rsync or something to do that onto a
> local server/HD of some time, one that you can always have access to,
> via http, ftp, nfs, etc.. You can then set it up to check however many
> times a day/week/month you want so it's always up to do.
>
> It does make installs/upgrades/etc..a lot faster and you don't need
> internet access while doing it.
>
>
This is what I do. The full tree for 19, 20, 21, and rawhide plus 
updates-testing is only using approx. 250GB. I don't grab the source or 
delta rpms, and I've excluded many of the games. Makes netinstalls a breeze.

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