I had high hopes for FC5, damn...

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/10/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > I must be missing something here.  I can understand downloading the
> > iso images, making CDs, then reading the CDs in to disk.  At that
> > point you can do a Disk or FTP install.
> >
> > You seem to be saying that with NFS you can use the iso images
> > directly.  I know its possible to do some sort of strange mount on
> > these iso images and see the actual data, but I was going to have to
> > look that up,- you seem to be saying that there is a askmethod
> > method that can use them directly with NFS.  Im going to have to
> > load the CD and see just what it says when I try.
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> Using the NFS method you can just point anaconda at the directory on
> the NFS server containing the iso (or iso's if you use the cd images)
> and anaconda will take care of reading the files from the iso.  No
> loopback mounting needed on your part.  It's quite handy.
>
Very handy. Yet people say Linux is soo hard to install. :(

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