On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:24 AM, R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org> wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010, R. Scott Belford wrote: > >> I am confused and a little nervous. I was just beginning a net-install >> of 5.4, and suddenly it disappeared from my mirror. > > The wiki counsels against installing across the net for a > large variety of reasons > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/InternetInstallation > amended to reflect yet another Respectfully, I tirelessly manage the mirror at UH in Hawaii, mirror.hosef.org, and I expect to eat my own cooking. I've been doing network installs via http for years, and I cache locally on one of the squid servers in my LAN. I had no reason to expect that a machine I manage over bandwidth I moderately influence would stop serving a 5.4 directory because an errant rsync job deleted our entire 5.x tree. I agree that this another reason to be wary of network installs, but I would hardly chalk this one up to yet another example of why not. The failure has nothing to do with the wiki. > > -- Russ herrold --scott