Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > > >> As far as I have seen while being in #centos, most beginners' questions >> (in the context of netinstall) were more or less similar to "what should >> I put in the 'mirror' and 'path' fields ?". Can we patch anaconda so as >> to prepopulate those two without overloading any particular mirrors >> (maybe using somehow the output of mirrorlist ) ? > > For those cases http://mirror.centos.org/ now(!) should be enough, we > give those ips out depending on which region you are in. Those in Asia, > South America or Africa could have a slightly problematic user > experience, though. > > I don't think mirrorlist can be used at that stage, as it clearly is > asking that before network really is up, IIRC. But I may remember > incorrectly If I understand correctly, the 'mirror' and 'path' fields during network installation could be prepopulated by patching the current CentOS anaconda package. Then, a newly generated set of files used by the netinstall and the LiveCD iso images [1] would automatically feature those predefined fields. Then, my question is: when are we going to see this updated anaconda and network installation files? [1]: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/isolinux/ -- Patrice