[Resolved][FC4] Missing documentation?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jun 17 07:40:01 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:46 -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:21 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> > Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Assuming you have a running NFS server someplace, you're looking to
> > > _combine_ all these images together into one directory, copying them
> > > from these ISOs.
> > 
> > If you are using NFS, just point it to the directory the ISOs are in.  NFS
> > installs can use the ISO images instead of an exploded tree.
> 
>     Are you serious?  It knows how to deal with these, without the
> copying step?
> 
>     That's incredible.  But then, we've taken Linux to places Unix never
> envisioned before...

It does this by doing the loopback mounting of the ISO images on the
client rather than the server. "Very Unix", as you would say :-)

It works with the DVD ISO too if you don't have the CD ISOs.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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