Fedora follies

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 07:41 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
>
>> Now, anyone got pointers on how to do a network install of Fedora over
>> the Internet (i.e., a network install without having to download the
>> entire Fedora DVD?).  Kinda defeats the purpose of a network install.
>
>
> That's what I just did, There is a netinstall iso. I used
> Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso, which is 114 megs. That's the one I mentioned
> that didn't automatically have the repository included; I had to
> manually enter it. (although that's my first attempt at FC. could be
> driver error.) I could maybe find the url, but google should be quicker.
>

I don't think that you understand Fedora's concept of a repository.
The repository is where *ALL* (10GB worth, right now) the RPMs are
stored.  There's no way that you could ever get any Fedora install
media with the repository included.


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