Installing from DVD image via ftp
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Sun Aug 3 19:07:12 UTC 2008
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> writes:
Tim> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 08:35 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I tried the same URL from firefox on the server - SELinux jumps
>> in, so it looks like that is the problem.
>>
>> I then tried System->Adminstration->SELinux management, in the
>> hope that I could switch of SELinux, but I can't seem to do so.
Tim> If you really want to disable it, the option's on the first
Tim> page of that management tool.
Tim> Current enforcing mode: Enforcing/Permissive
Tim> Meaning that rules are enforced, or not. In enforcing mode,
Tim> the rules are enforced. In permissive mode, the rules are
Tim> not enforced, things are allowed, but logged.
Thanks Tim.
I did this, and it stopped objecting. But my machine no longer managed
to find the ftp server at all (coincidence I presume).
Tim> The real solution would be to sort out the problem with loop
Tim> mounting an ISO and FTP serving it. But it's ages since I've
Tim> played with FTP serving. The last few times I've done
Tim> network installs, it's been over HTTP or NFS.
So I used NFS (with the loop-mounted system). it's working fine.
There were some other problems:
1) Even though I specified askmethod and selected NFS, anaconda still
detected (and chose) a local installation medium (CD #1), so i had to
reboot and start all over again.
2) The partioning program had a bug, and I was given no option to
continue the installation (restarting the disk partition process
should have been fine), so again i had to reboot.
Still, I have my system now.
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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