Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?

["James Rogers" <james.rogers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try killing the installer then setting
'export http_proxy=http://192.168.65.253:8080'
then running the installer

Regards
James

2008/5/10 Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Glen,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Glen Turner wrote:
>
>> You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write
>> the URLs the use the explicit proxy.
>
> That sounds like a bit of a hassle.
>
>> Plan B is simply to download the whole thing to somewhere
>> local using wget and run a HTTP server from there. That's
>> how I upgrade my machines at home, since it avoids multiple
>> downloads from the ISP and is much faster than an install
>> from a DVD, taking maybe 15 minutes.
>
> Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs
> for what must be close to a decade. I *know* this is saving me
> bandwidth. For instance I've run up a Debian i386 instance in
> a Qemu VM. The Qemu disk img after a complete install with all
> the dev tools I need for testing but without X is 1.7 Gig.
>
> If the installed image is 1.7 Gig, what I downloaded (ie compressed
> packages) was *way* smaller than 1.7Gig.
>
> The Fedora alternative seems to be to downlaod a 3.4 Gig ISO. Sorry
> I'm not buying. I'll wait until Fedora joins us in the 1990s or
> fiddle with the proxy solution.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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