Sorry to intrude here, but I am not getting this answered on the Fedora Community list. I have dug through the installation guides (both f20 and 19) and have not found the answer...
I have learned that the OS repo location can be specified via repo=url, but all attempts so far not shown a way to specify the updates repo url.
In the Installation Source dialog, the Updates option is checked and greyed out. And even so, there is no place here to specify a url. Should I be using Additional Repositories? BTW, I have local copies of the OS and Updates repos.
I noticed an updates=url option to specify at boot, but this seems to mean something other than the Updates repo. The install hung with all sorts of messages and never got to the first dialog.
I also saw a repo -name= option, but it is not clear how to use this.
So I would really like to specify the Updates repo at install time. It saves a LOT of effort to not have to apply updates on install which can get in the hundreds of rpms needing updates.
If I have encountered a bug, let me know and I will post a report.
thank you
On 12/20/2013 12:02 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
In the Installation Source dialog, the Updates option is checked and greyed out. And even so, there is no place here to specify a url. Should I be using Additional Repositories? BTW, I have local copies of the OS and Updates repos.
You've left out some important details. What method are you using to install? DVD, netinst iso, etc. I expect if you are using the DVD with no network, you will have the situation you describe. Also, where are your local copies of the repos?
On 12/20/2013 11:58 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/20/2013 12:02 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
In the Installation Source dialog, the Updates option is checked and greyed out. And even so, there is no place here to specify a url. Should I be using Additional Repositories? BTW, I have local copies of the OS and Updates repos.
You've left out some important details. What method are you using to install? DVD, netinst iso, etc. I expect if you are using the DVD with no network, you will have the situation you describe. Also, where are your local copies of the repos?
I am using the DVD, but at install, I press tab and add:
repo=http://repo.homebase.home.htt/fedora/20/os/i386/
You might tell by that TLD, that this host is local to my subnet. This is what I did back for f17 (I am skipping over f18 & 19, so changes there are new to me). But I used url=... back then. I think. I saw on the installation instructions for f19 to use repo=
udpates are: