[ILUG] FC 9 Net Install

[Barry O'Donovan]

Presumably it's not dissimilar to CentOS so some minor tweeking of the 
following as appropriate should work:

Web site name: ftp.heanet.ie
CentOS directory: pub/centos/5.1/os/x86_64

In fairness it's pretty non-intuitive.

 - Barry

On Thursday 19 June 2008 09:42:13 Michael Watterson wrote:
> I've done Debian and Ubuntu network installs. Just automatically gets
> the packages off the net.
>
> Fedora 9  boot CD Network install was downloaded and burnt.
>
> 1) It boots
> 2) after usual language/keyboard it asks for source of packages
> CD
> Disk
> NFS
> URL
>
> Obviously only NFS or URL is going to work...
>
> Only URL for Internet
> But it expects you to type in an address.
>
> Googling doesn't immediately suggest one. The "Network Install" looks
> suspiciously like  LAN  install  rather  than Debian's Boot CD and
> install from  Internet .
>
> I have 20Mbps internet, but no DVD  drive on  the  target  PC, only CD.
>
> Any ideas for a URL on the Internet?
>
>
> --
> Mike



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