To anyone interested, seriously, go try / check out http://boot.kernel.org - it's got the latest Centos 5.4 in it and all of that jazz. Pravin and I are always keen on feedback and so far it's been fast and useful to me. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley Nick Olsen wrote: > I wouldn't mind having just a net-install iso. > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-mirror mailing list >> CentOS-mirror at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror