Network-based install unreliable?

[poma]

On 11.02.2015 21:44, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> Since Red Hat 4.2, I have frequently performed network-based installs
> of Red Hat/Fedora. Some time around Fedora 16, installing over the
> network became somewhat unreliable. It seems like some days it just won't
> work. Generally there is some package that cannot be found or something
> to that effect.
> 
> I have always assumed that problems with network installs occur because
> of inconsistencies across Fedora's mirrors.
> 
> Today, I had trouble until I changed the source URL to
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/... and avoided mirrorlists.
> 
> I have had this trouble on two university campuses and also from home.
> 
> The stange thing is that I do not see too many complaints from anyone else.
> Has anyone else had trouble with this?
> 
> I would much prefer using the mirror system than hitting
> dl.fedoraproject.org directly.
> 

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/207594.html
  FYI, I am going to be moving machines around at a datacenter...

Perhaps ask him not to move machines around, at least until you install. ;)