Why netinstall? Get the ISO, use it from a USB stick. The ISO will avoid 
excessive additional downloads

if installing more hosts with virtualbox or vmware

My 5 Cents

Rainer

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On 4/12/21 5:40 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Perhaps someone can refresh my memory:  under old EL, was the mirror 
> list statically built into the install package, dynamically loaded if 
> an Internet connection is available, or a mix of these two?  I do not 
> recall having to type long strings such as mirror URLs into the "old" 
> installs.
>
> For IBM RH, a limited list of IBM RH "owned" servers makes business 
> sense, but not for an open system licensed for free. (The argument of 
> cost transference through the use of a no-cost-to-the-business server 
> often is outweighed by market control and brand identification 
> enforced loyalty arguments.)
>
> On 4/12/21 2:55 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:23 AM Takashi Ichihara
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>>> My recollection of a fresh install of SL (it has been a number of 
>>>>> years,
>>>> and thus memory may be defective) is that SL provided a set of 
>>>> mirrors.
>>>> Is one to assume that AL8 has no such mirrors or that AL8 network
>>>> bootable media does not include the list so established?
>>>
>>> Just one comment.
>>>
>>> AlmaLinux already has a lot of mirros! ( 75 mirror sites now :-) )
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mirrors.almalinux.org_&d=DwIBaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=y7r9iro2whYATmZvTlfDdVMBibosCwY4wOi8tLPubYc&s=iNBj7JqH-k8I7-Rb1JRBt7cEypGutVRrBPCPo7siPmc&e= 
>>>
>>
>> RHEL 8 installation media do not have a console selectable "pick a
>> mirror from this list to install from", nor does CentOS 8. You have to
>> type it in manually in the network based installation interface, or
>> work from the installation DVD rather than the netinstall ISO and
>> avoid network installation altogether. AlmaLinux 8 would have to
>> violate binary consistency with RHEL to fix this flaw.
>>
>> This kind of stupidity is one of customer burdening regression in a
>> vital tool is one of the reasons I'm not happy with RHEL 8 and the
>> clones, and am not championing it.
>>