On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:

>
> Hendrik van Hees wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded the installation iso image and installed the system via
>> network. That's a nice option if you have a fast network connection. In my
>> case the image has been
>> 
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/images/boot.iso
>> 
>> It worked very well "out of the box". The only thing, I had to do by hand 
>> was
>> to compile the newest madwifi kernel modules myself, but also this worked
>> very smoothly (after installing the kenrel source package of course).
>
> Thanks for mentioning that option. Didn't realize there was a network install 
> option available now. (When I used Fedora 5 or so a long time ago, it didn't 
> have that option. Hadn't realized it was now added).

All of the Fedora's have had a network option.

>
> I'd prefer downloading 1 or 2 CDs and then proceeding from there instead of 
> the network install. If I go the former way, atleast I'll have all the stuff 
> I want in hand. Later if I want to install SL on more machines, I won't have 
> to download all the components again ...
>
> Regards,
> Rakhesh
>

-Connie Sieh