Mike - EMAIL IGNORED: (network *installing*) > OK I did it, and used the URL: > > http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/YUM/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/ > > which I selected because it is a Fedora mirror, probably under > 100 miles from my computers, and responded rapidly when I looked > at it with my browser. My screen now shows "Starting install > process. This may take several minutes...". As of 14:16-0400, > it has said this for about the last two hours. Am I too > impatient? There are occasional signs of life. I found doing a network install, like that, was faster than downloading a huge ISO (never mind burning it, and the following steps). Probably, simply because you download only what you really use. But there's a disadvantage if you have to restart, you lose what you've done so far. Doing it through a proxy with a large cache would avoid that problem, though. That was how I used to do multiple Windows updates. > I have just installed my own ftp "mirror" on a Win2k box on my > LAN. Do you think this would be faster? Yes, because it's local. Most LANs are faster than most ISPs, including broadband. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
