Network install failure
Matt Whiteley
matt-whiteley at comcast.net
Thu Jul 24 20:23:28 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 09:04, Mike McLean wrote:
> <snip>
> The network install methods are: nfs, ftp, http, nfsiso, httpdisc, and
> ftpdisc.
>
> - nfs, ftp, and http installs work off of a unified tree (All rpms in a
> single tree) that is accessible via the given protocol.
>
> - nfsiso works off of an nfs directory containing the isos (and nothing
> else!). No other network install method can use raw isos.
>
> - ftpdisc and httpdisc work off of a directory containing the split tree
> (one subdirectory per disc). So you might point the installer at
> http://myserver/Severn/discs/ where the discs directory contains
> subdirectories disc1, disc2, and disc3 which themselves contain the
> contents of the three discs. The idea behind these methods is that you
> can loopback mount the three isos on your server, make those mountpoint
> accessible via ftp or http, and run a network install off of that.
This was so much easier and complete to understand than what I read in
the manual.
thanks,
--
Matt Whiteley <matt-whiteley at comcast.net>
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