Fedora 4 DVD install image missing?
Lamont R. Peterson
lamont at gurulabs.com
Thu Aug 4 19:07:06 UTC 2005
On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:09am, Bruce Feist wrote:
> I'm about to install Fedora 4 (64 bit version) on a new computer. So, I
> went to find the DVD image on the RH Fedora site, but found only CD
> images. Then I looked at the mirrors, and found that some of them had
> the DVD image as well as the CD images. How can this be?
>
> I downloaded a DVD image from one of the mirrors, and burned a DVD...
> Fedora's CD check during installation reported that it's defective. I'm
> currently trying again, with an image from a different mirror; I'm not
> optimistic that it'll work; we'll see. If it doesn't work, I'll either
> download the CD images from RedHat, or install from a 32-bit install
> image instead (if I get way too lazy).
Here's another option:
1. Download DVD or CD iso(s)
2. Verify shasums
3. loopback mount iso(s)
4. copy all the content of the DVD/CDs to a directory on a file server
(unfortunately, newer versions of NFS servers will not export any of the
content of loopback mounted directories successfully, I used to do that and
it worked well, but I have not taken the time to figure out how to get the
NFS server to do it. Another option is to use unionfs, which can be
successfully exported, though I haven't tested it).
5. Export via NFS (and/or FTP/HTTP.
6. Burn a CD using the boot.iso image in the images/ directory on the first
CD or on the DVD.
7. Boot your system(s) using the boot.iso CD and do a network install.
I have found this to be much better way to install systems. I have done
upgrade installs this way for my AMD64 box. You only use 1 CD (and it could
be a little 50MB biz-card disc, if you want) and the network installation is
MUCH faster than swapping discs or using the DVD.
Of course, I also burn a DVD-/+RW disc to carry the newest version of Fedora
with me. I would like to find a 2-sided DVD-/+RW disc to burn x86 on one side
and AMD64 on the other.
--
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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