f9 preview install via NFS won't

[Jesse Keating]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:50, Terry Polzin <foxec208 at wowway.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday April 30 2008, Frederick William New wrote:
>> On 30. aprill 2008. a. 5:14, Terry Polzin wrote
>>
>>> I boot from boot.iso, get dhcp address, specify NFS host &  
>>> directory,
>>> partition the disk, etc. and when it comes time to mount the iso  
>>> to a
>>> loopback device  it can't.
>>
>> 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
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This should be fixed in recent anaconda builds. You van use rawhide  
boot.ISO to install from nfs ISO of preview.

--jes