Installing FC4 from iso images

[Kam Leo]

On 7/13/05, M.Lewis <_fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
         ^
         |
I believe your problem is here.  Disc2 needs to be +r so all users are read it.

> -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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