Description of problem: I would like to be able to use multiple installation sources when installing. The majority of packages I choose are installed from the first two disks, but it seems wasteful to have to download an entire third (or more) disk just for a few packages. So, it'd be nice if I could, when asked to install FC disk 3, choose to switch to an alternative source, like an HTTP mirror. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 5 i386 Installer (booted from Disk 1) How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download only the first and second disks 2. Attempt to install Fedora. 3. Dead end when prompted for third disk, for relatively few packages. Actual results: Dead end when prompted for third disk, for relatively few packages. Expected results: Allow an alternative installation source to be chosen when asked for the third (or fourth, or second) disk. Additional info:
If you think it's wasteful, download just the boot.iso and do your entire install over the network. Switching install types mid-way through basically has to change the entire plumbing of how we pull things and we can't easily correlate that the place you point to via HTTP exactly matches the repository info for the CDs (which would be required, as otherwise there could be different versions of packages or definitions of groups which need to be taken into account)