On 07/10/2007, das <dasd.here@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 1. How to choose which mirror is good for us, say, someone living in > Calcutta (WB, India), with a connection 32 kbps at most? If what the default mirrorlist (which should return servers suitable for your geographical location) is considered insufficient ( http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/09/14/29868.aspx ), you could try to choose a server yourself or test the "fastestmirror" plug-in for Yum. > 2. Once I download the i386 repository, when I am going to break that > into DVD-s or CD-s for some system without Net connection, what script I > am going to use. For ubuntu repository there was a Ruby script called > 'debcopy'. I don't know Ruby, I just made '+x' on it and then ran it on > the repository. Is something in F7 like that that will break it into > coherent pieces? Try Revisor as a GUI for creating installation and live media: "yum info revisor"
