On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, stephan schutter wrote: > By the way... is there a mirror that is not all clogged up? limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/test/1.90 > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of David L Norris > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:42 PM > To: fedora list > Subject: Re: FC2 test 1 > > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:34, David Cary Hart wrote: > > The problem is that users will then use Yum to install all the extras. > > This could create a considerable bottleneck for updates. > > Downloading 3 GB of ISOs to install a working system places the network > burden up front. With the Core OS on one CD you could spread those > bandwidth requirements over a longer time frame. > > Unless everyone does "yum install '*'" it seems like this should > conserve bandwidth at any given point in time. Anyone doing more than a > few installations would surely be smart enough to create their own > internal mirror and use boot.iso or netboot. > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
