While this does seem to have veered off the original topic, I have added the isos to the rsync list for both <a href="http://mirror.seiri.com">mirror.seiri.com</a> systems.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Bryan Gartner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan.gartner@hp.com">bryan.gartner@hp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Nick,<br>
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:48:40PM +0000, Nick Olsen wrote:<br>
> I wouldn't mind having just a net-install iso.<br>
<br>
</div>5.4 seems to have 'em -- CentOS-5.4-i386-netinstall.iso<br>
CentOS-5.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso<br>
<br>
Plus there are other solutions out there like LinuxCOE/Instalinux<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.instalinux.com/" target="_blank">http://www.instalinux.com/</a><br>
<br>
to quickly generate small boot images and get the distro from<br>
network repositories,<br>
<br>
bryang<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> I'm lucky enough to have a decent connection at home, Atleast for around<br>
> here, of about 30/5<br>
> And my second mirror at work is on symmetrical 100mb fiber. So booting<br>
> from a small iso, and http or ftp'ing all the stuff needed is fast.<br>
> And here at home on gigabit, Net-install is faster then the dvd.<br>
> I've done a base 5.3 install in like 1 minute (once it starts copying).<br>
><br>
> On 10/23/2009 3:53 PM, J.H. wrote:<br>
> > Jeff Sheltren wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >>> Never Thought of that....<br>
> >>> I guess your right.<br>
> >>> Don't really see why ISO's shouldn't be carried though.<br>
> >>><br>
> >> Disk space.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Some people (I won't name names, *cough* warthog *cough*) might argue<br>
> >> that having ISO images is simply a replication of the packages we're<br>
> >> already carrying on the mirror and that there should be a better way<br>
> >> to handle stuff so that mirrors don't end up with multiple copies of<br>
> >> what is essentially the same data.<br>
> >><br>
> > I'm trying my best to kill those stupid ISO images - I mean I've got<br>
> > <a href="http://boot.kernel.org" target="_blank">boot.kernel.org</a> and I've done several installs / upgrades that way<br>
> > (including Centos I might add!), and as a general goal I want to<br>
> > eliminate as many needs to burn a cd for a task as I can.<br>
> ><br>
> > That said I realize that I'm "not normal" and at best 5 years ahead of<br>
> > the big curve. Many people's internet connections are not as good as<br>
> > mine, and it's only 16mbps down / 2mbps up. Compare that to some of the<br>
> > other places on the planet with 10mbps symetric to 1000mbps symetric and<br>
> > mine pales.<br>
> ><br>
> > I have no real expectation however that we will get rid of the ISOs<br>
> > anytime soon. I would *LOVE* if we could drop the CD ISOs completely<br>
> > from everything, but there's apparently a major backlash every time that<br>
> > happens (Fedora's done it a couple of times now). I'm kinda hoping that<br>
> > with <a href="http://boot.kernel.org" target="_blank">boot.kernel.org</a> and the DVD ISOs we might be able to finally kill<br>
> > the CD ISO itself off and save all of that space and eliminate that from<br>
> > the possible working set of data. Just my $0.02 though.<br>
> ><br>
> > - John 'Warthog9' Hawley<br>
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