On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:06:00 -0600 Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors > > Does Ubuntu have a very small netboot ISO that you can use to install > directly off the net? Seems very silly and wasteful to download an > entire DVD except for machines that are completely off-line. Not that I know of. Gentoo and Debian have something similar, and they are nice. However, Ubuntu is a fat distribution, so I expect much of what's on the CD is installed. (Ubuntu provides CD-size images.) Also, I would wonder how well the network installers would recover if the network broke during the install. > > With pxe it's even easier. I have only downloaded about 20 MB worth > of kernel and ramdisk to install Fedora for the last several years. > Net installs are often faster than DVD too.. Yup. I used to make the ISO image available on my network via NFS (something else Ubuntu could use). Very fast! -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
