Jim Perrin wrote: >On 11/3/05, Nick Wales <nick at nexusproductions.com> wrote: > > >>Installation over the network has seemingly failed, for the second time. >> >>Everything goes smoothly until about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through the >>downloading packages stage, at which point it hangs (both times its been >>8% through a package, not sure if this is of any significance, 1st time >>cups and now gawk). >> >>I set the install to look on the mirror.centos.org site and use the >>centos/4/os/i386 folder. >> >> > >mirror.centos.org is actually a round-robin dns setup that points to >about 8 seperate machines that are located all over. One of them may >not be accessible from your network segment for some reason. For >network installs, it's best to have a local mirror, but failing that, >you should pick something close and fast off the mirror list on >centos.org to eliminate any potential blockages from hopping back and >forth between machines. For network installs without a local mirror, >it might be to your advantage to choose a mininal install, and use yum >install/groupinstall to get the rest of what you want after you have a >system installed and functional. > > > many thanks Jim, not only did that make a lot of sense, it worked first time.