More upgrade goodness

[Philip Walden]

Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:27:17 -0400 Mark Haney wrote: 
>   
>> Has anyone mounted a DVD iso and used it via apache to upgrade a
>> system? 
>>   I can use ftp I suppose, but it would require setting up ftp here
>> and 
>> I"m not all the keen on doing it unless I absolutely have to.  I''ve 
>> read where apache doesn't like files greater than 2GB, but if the ISO
>> is 
>> mounted it should only serve up the files it needs, not the entire
>> ISO. 
>>   Right?
>>     
>
> That approach has worked well for me. You'll have to disable SELinux
> protection for httpd because you can't apply the right security context
> to the files in an ISO9660 filesystem (because of both the lack of file
> attributes and the read-only nature of ISO9660).
>
> A posting about this is at
> http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/69-Installing-Fedora-7.html
>
> (I don't think there actually is a 2GB Apache limitation: I presume the
> mirror servers serving the ISOs running Apache themselves. There are
> clients with a 2GB limit though, the old version of either wget or lynx
> (can't remember which) had issues).
>   
The 2GB restriction is on file upload, not download. It is a Browser 
restriction based on 32bit file size, as I recall. All browsers are 
coded for 32 bit file address space.