That is precisely what I did -- install from media -- but during the
install (if memory serves -- this may have been another distro that I
had to install on an enduser machine), the option to update was given
(as the bootable ISO install image was not "current" with the latest
security updates, etc) and then a choice of mirrors appeared. As I
recall, if a particular mirror was off-line, etc, one could then return
to the mirror choice and choose a different mirror.
Our real network throughput was too low in most cases to do a full
install over the Internet (although an image on a LAN SAN/NAS had enough
throughput); as the security update had to be done in any event, I did
this during initial install if possible (with later updates done on the
installed resulting live system -- we were not using a Type 1 hypervisor
system with deployable full supervisor OS image and had tried several
central deployment options, chef, etc, but mostly did things by hand).
Again, the update during install may not have been from SL, as I have
not done a fresh install of SL since the advent of SL 7.
On 4/12/21 12:11 PM, RL wrote:
> 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.
>>>
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