Installing from DVD image via ftp

[Knute Johnson]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> Since the CD/DVD drive  on a particular computer is unreliable, I am
> trying to install via ftp.
> 
> I moved the Fedora-9-is86-DVD.iso image to the /pub directory of my
> ftp server, and tried supplying a URL to point to it (I tried both the
> image, and the pub directory as the URL). In each case, it appears to
> be looking for a file /pub/images/stage2.img (or something like that -
> I don't have the message in front of me right now.).
> 
> How do I set up bfor ftp install? I can't find instructions.

Colin:

I'm certainly no expert but I've done several installs now via http.  I 
copied the contents of my F9 DVD to my http server in a directory called 
F9.  Boot the target computer with the boot.iso and tell it to load from 
the http server and directory.  It is faster, even with a slow computer, 
than loading from slow CDs.

I've never been able to remember how to mount an iso so that wasn't an 
option for me.

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Knute Johnson
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