hard disk install with installation tree, not the isos

Philip Tauber pt at uu.mine.nu
Thu Jul 29 12:11:08 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:42, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:34 +0200, Philip Tauber wrote:
> > Why is it impossible to do a hdd install with an installation tree on
> > disk? Are there any technical reasons or is it regarded as not needed? I
> > don't want to use the isos because I am using the local mirror of the
> > installation tree as a yum repository.
> > 
> > Philip Tauber
> Have you mirrored the entire /pub/fedora/core/linux/2/i386/os directory?
> (or which ever version/arch you need)
> 
> I have done numerous HTTP and NFS installs using a mirrored location,
> however i am mirroring that entire directory. I think there may be a way
> of excluding certain directories but I have not spent any time looking
> in to it.
> 
I have mirrored the hole i386/os/ directory of fedora core 1 except
SRPMS. NFS installs work fine. But for a hard disk install, anaconda
says I need the isos on the disk and it doesn't except the tree.





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