f9 preview install via NFS won't

[Terry Polzin]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 09:50, Frederick William New wrote:
> On 30. aprill 2008. a. 13:51, Terry Polzin wrote
>
> > On Wednesday April 30 2008, Frederick William New wrote:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443291
> > >
> > > There is a problem with installing from a hard disk, too - high on the
> > > rudeness scale since it formats your /boot and root file systems just
> > > before it fails.  You can work around the NFS installation problem by
> > > hexedit'ing your -DVD.iso file - see comments 10 and 15 in bugzilla.
> > >
> > > This is a Fedora 9 blocker bug, so it should be fixed by the time
> > > Fedora 9 becomes generally available.
> > >
> > > Fred
> >
> > This is a show stopper especially when NFS install is mostly all I do and
> > to top it all off root can't even edit the file and rewrite it.  But that
> > HAS to be my fault.
>
> 1. Do you have hexedit installed?  If not, yum install hexedit.
> 2. hexedit Fedora-9-Preview-i386-DVD.iso
> 3. /414c4c<enter>  (This will search for the word ALL.  The first ALL you
> find should be the one you want to change, but check comment 15 of the bug
> in bugzilla.) 4. 310a0a  (This will replace ALL with 1<new line><new
> line>.)
> 5. <Ctrl>-X  (To save and exit.)
>
> There is more information about hexedit in the man page; for example,
> <Ctrl>-C exits without saving.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Fred
Problem is I can't seem to write the file with either hexedit or khexedit.

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