[GTALUG] Fedora Netinstall

[Giles Orr]

On 10 February 2018 at 20:44, Bob Jonkman via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

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> Hugh wrote:
> > I would think that most 32-bit only laptops are not really useful
> > any longer.
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite P200 laptop, 3 GHz dual-core CPU, 2 GBytes
> RAM, 200 GByte HD, 4 USB ports, and, most wonderful of all, a 1440x900
> px 17" screen.
>
> I was disappointed to learn about a week ago when installing Debian
> Testing that it only has a 32-bit CPU. I have another P200 that no
> longer boots, and I was sure it had a 64-bit CPU.  That one also had
> Bluetooth and 6 USB ports, so it was likely a higher sub-model of the
> P200.
>
> Such a machine is perfectly adequate for web surfing, e-mail reading,
> maintaining other people's websites, and ssh-ing into whatever remote
> machine I'm SysAdminning. But now that some packages are no longer
> available in 32-bit architecture (hello, Chrome!) it may be necessary
> to buy a new laptop.
>
> Are there any down sides to using a 32-bit machine as a web- or mail
> server? I'm thinking low power consumption, &c. make that an
> attractive alternate use.
>
>
> Howard wrote:
> >> Has anyone else out there played with this? (Netinstall)
>
> Yes, very successfully. I generally prefer doing the netinstall. Using
> an .iso to install takes time to copy all the OS files and packages to
> the computer, and, unless the .iso is a very recent release, almost
> everything you just installed has to be replaced with the first
> upgrade you make.  So, might as well do the netinstall and get all the
> current stuff the first time.
>
>
> - --Bob.
>
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> On 2018-02-10 10:49 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > | From: Howard Gibson via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> >
> > |    I have just upgraded my 32-bit laptop to Fedora 27.  The
> > install DVD |    is no longer available for 32-bit.  I had to do a
> > Netinstall.
> >
> > Interesting.  What laptop is it?  I would think that most 32-bit
> > only laptops are not really useful any longer.
>
> > On 2018-02-09 10:27 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> >> I have just upgraded my 32-bit laptop to Fedora 27.  The install
> >> DVD is no longer available for 32-bit.  I had to do a Netinstall.
> >> Netinstall is poorly documented, but the default settings all
> >> work, I was able to select the software I wanted, and it has all
> >> worked very well.  I think I actually prefer Netinstall to the
> >> DVD.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else out there played with this?
> >>
> >> I have not yet updated my website notes.


I'm reading all of this with some interest: I tried a Fedora Net Install
about four months back.  And I appear to be the only person on this list
who had a problem with it.  Specifically, I got to the page where you have
to fill in details about your system and users (I think, I'm doing this
from memory) and couldn't proceed further despite having filled in the
details because the installer was having a hard time either getting the
list of mirrors or finding a responsive mirror (I think it was the
former).  The result was a ten minute delay, despite my having a fully
functional network connection.  A bit of research at the time seemed to
indicate that this was an uncommon but not unheard-of problem with the Net
Installer.  It left me strongly inclined to make the big ISO download ...

-- 
Giles
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