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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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