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