Re: New Install Idea

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Robert Spangler wrote:

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On Saturday 29 January 2005 13:45, Matthew Miller wrote:



> Fedora and Red Hat have had this for ages.
> Download the boot.iso from your friendly Fedora mirror and burn it to CD
> (or diskboot.img and write it to USB pen). Boot from it, and it should
> give you the option of NFS, FTP or HTTP installs.

Except, it doesn't install the newest versions, unless you've gone out of
your way to rebuild a repository containing them. Normally, you still have
to do updates after the installation is complete.



And there in lies my point. I would like to be able to DL a boot cd that would give me the options to choose a mirror close to me and install all the files from there hence receiving all the latest software without having to update everything after the install is finished.


The only reason I bring this up is because last night i re-installed FC3 because of a problem I could not fix. I like being able to use the DVD ISO but then it took another ~1 hr to do all the updates. Would have been nice to boot from a boot cd and then choose what I wanted and not have to run yum to update everything after a freash install.

Hey it was just food for thought.  Maybe someday it will arrive. :)


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Regards
Robert

Smile... it increases your face value!
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There were some recent exchanges on this list addressing the howtos of constructing updated isos of Fedora Core releases under subject thread Re: Upgrading kernel in ISO images. Making new isos available for a release, say, when the followon release is issued or when passed to the Fedora Legacy Project sounds like a worthwhile project to me. If I ever progress beyond linux neophyte status I might be able to act on that thought. :)


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