Installing FC4 from iso images

M.Lewis _fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com
Wed Jul 13 19:35:32 UTC 2005



Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 18:46 -0500, M.Lewis wrote:
> 
>>I understood from this posting that it was possible to install FC4
>>'without' extracting the files from the iso images via the install from
>>hard drive method. Does this also work for NFS, HTTP, or FTP installs or
>>only the install from hard drive method. I've not been able to find any
>>information on this.
>>
>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=111888238112836&w=2
>>
>>I tried this via the NFS install method and got the message "The
>>following ISO images are missing which are required for the install: CD
>>#2". It worked fine without extracting the iso images up to that point.
> 
> 
> The method works for NFS too and is my installation method of choice.
> 
> Hard disk installs and NFS installs can use this method because the
> installer can "see" the ISO images on the filesystem and loopback mount
> them locally. This doesn't apply for HTTP and FTP installs, so those
> methods require that the contents of the ISOs are extracted server-side.
> 
> What do you have in your FC4 install directory on the NFS server?
> 
> # ls -l /path/to/isos
> 
> Paul.

Thanks Paul. What am I missing?

[cajun at moe FedoraCore4]$ ls -l
total 2610384
-rw-rw-r--  1 cajun cajun   6711296 Jun  6 21:39 boot.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 cajun cajun 665434112 Jun 16 22:32 FC4-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-------  1 cajun cajun 668708864 Jun 15 13:55 FC4-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 cajun cajun 668954624 Jun 16 00:36 FC4-i386-disc3.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 cajun cajun 660512768 Jun 16 07:00 FC4-i386-disc4.iso
-rw-rw-r--  1 cajun cajun       244 Jun 16 13:33 SHA1SUM


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