On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:42:51 -0700 "Kam Leo" <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/6/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:44 -0700, stan wrote: > > > In a month or so when the load on the fc7 mirrors is lower I will > > > upgrade this system to fc7 the same way. However, instead of > > > using yum to get the packages I will use wget -c to download all > > > packages in a repository to the hard drive. I'm not sure how to > > > use that as the repository for yum; it looks like it can be done > > > with a baseurl directive in the /etc/yum.conf.d/"main".repo > > > file. This should cut the header iteration time to about 15 > > > minutes though it won't help with install time. It will double > > > hard disk requirements. > > Just a heads up: I've created deltarpms for the fc6->f7 update > > process. I'm not sure what bandwidth you have, but using deltarpms > > will probably cut the bandwidth by a huge amount. > > > > The deltarpms are for an updated FC6 box that you want to yum > > upgrade to Fedora 7. You will need to install yum-presto and then, > > in your fedora 7 .repo file, add > > "deltaurl=http://www.lesbg.com/jdieter/dist_upgrade/fc6-f7/i386";. > > Then, just do yum update. > > > > Jonathan > > presto is a good option if you have a fast processor, lots of memory, > and a slow connection or ISP download quotas. > Jonathan Dieters response did not show up for me, so I am responding to this further reply from Kam Leo (as an aside, how would I use a single name to address you?) I will surely look into this, though when everything aligns properly I can download a DVD in about 45 minutes. So I'm thinking I would get all this in about 2 to 3 hours directly. On the other hand, your solution is very straightforward. Thanks.
