F9 NFS install fails

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jun 30 13:05:55 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:06 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> Not necessarily.  You can access an ISO file on non-Linux partition
> >> types, as well.
>  
> 
> Amadeus W.M.:
> > Even ntfs?
> 
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html> suggests yes (table at bottom of page) and no (second paragraph).  I haven't tried it, to see which is wrong.
> 
> Wouldn't a DVD ISO be too large to fit on a FAT drive?  I thought they
> had a 2 gig file size limit.
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mkfs can format up to 32 GB vfat volumes last time I checked. I believe
that Windows can format larger.

Craig




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