[K12OSN] Network Install

[Eric Harrison]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:04, Petre Scheie wrote:
>
>>I know the two directories contain different files; the i386 directory makes sense to
>>me, as it just contains all the files that are contained on the CDs.   I guess what I'm
>>really asking is why NFS exporting a directory with the ISO files works, since the
>>individual files aren't broken out.
>
>
> The installer knows how to do the magic loopback mount of the iso files
> to get at the contents.
>

and the "magic loopback" mount trick doesn't work via FTP or HTTP, it
only works with NFS...

-Eric
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