On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:14 AM, mad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I install SL6 via Cobbler (PXE) within a company network. While > installing anaconda tries to reach Scientific Linux ftp server. > > The outgoing network traffic uses a proxy. The connection fails and > every try does take time. > > Can I switch off these network connections completely? > > Thanks in advance for any help
Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL for your installation: the packages are GPG signed and thus authenticated, which helps protect from cracking of your local mirror. And if you can, make that mirror public! Share the bandwidth you're costing to host it! I use precisely this for virtual host building, and did so for RHEL using the "reposync" tool to populate the local mirrors and non-standard channels for internal access. Always made sure I had enough licenses, but the bandwidth and license management for reaching out to external sites for big packages can add up very fast if you synchronize updates at all. Also note if you do this: Scientific Linux 57 showed up last night at my local mirror, apparently in pre-release and without the bulky ISO's published. But I'm a happy camper because it just solved the pain in the keister of installing a recent jdk and jbossas from JPackage for Scientific Linux 5. And it solved an openldap feature request by including openldap24 that I get to hand to someone this morning. Woo-hoo!!!!
