[CentOS-mirror] New mirror

[Bob Bownes]

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 at 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.
> > >
> > > - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
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