Reduce "Core" to 1 Binary CD? -- WAS: Request for Packages in Fedora Core 3

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Mon May 24 20:32:06 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:34, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 24, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> 
> >   Can one simply mount, say...
> 
> > /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc1.iso
> >    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc1 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0
> 
> > /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc2.iso
> >    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc2 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0
> 
> > /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc3.iso
> >    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc3 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop2 0 0
> 
> > /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc4.iso
> >    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc4 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop3 0 0
> 
> > and then point askmethod to ftp://server/pub/fc2/ ?
> 
> I don't think so.  That would be nice very though.

I think that's been supported for quite a while now. From anaconda's
install-methods.txt:

- FTP/HTTP (from a directory of loopback-mounted ISOs)
------------------------------------------------------
 
  Summary:
      Pulls files from tree via FTP.  Looks in 'disc1/' directory to
contain files from CD #1, 'disc2/' for CD #2, etc.  These can be created
on the server by loopback mounting the ISO images into these directories
under the directory made available to ftp.

	- Panu -





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