Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> said: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:27 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Somewhere around Red Hat 9 I filed an RFE that any package it couldn't > > read off CD/DVD it would let you go to the network to download. Sadly its > > not been followed up in all the years since. > > > > In RH9 days it would have been quite hard, today it ought to be far > > easier. > > Interesting thought. In fact there's no reason an install DVD can't > offer you stuff that's not physically present. Maybe it'll come into its > own for Fedora ??, when the full set of standard packages won't fit on a > single-layer DVD :-) Um, I'm pretty sure it already does that. The network repos are listed, you just have to click to enable them. What Alan is talking about is a little more difficult, because you'd have to have the network as a fall-back for the local media. I believe yum can do this with mirrors (if one fails, fall-back to another), but I don't know how anaconda sets up the local and network repos. If the network was enabled, and if the repos were set up essentially with file:/// as the preferred and network mirrors lower preference, the fall-back should work. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
