Oh, I know. I'm just saying do away will all the iso's BUT the net-install's. On 10/23/2009 5:00 PM, Bryan Gartner 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > >