I had high hopes for FC5, damn...

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed May 10 19:50:45 UTC 2006


On 5/10/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> > clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > > I must be missing something here.  I can understand downloading the
> > > iso images, making CDs, then reading the CDs in to disk.  At that
> > > point you can do a Disk or FTP install.
> > >
> > > You seem to be saying that with NFS you can use the iso images
> > > directly.  I know its possible to do some sort of strange mount on
> > > these iso images and see the actual data, but I was going to have to
> > > look that up,- you seem to be saying that there is a askmethod
> > > method that can use them directly with NFS.  Im going to have to
> > > load the CD and see just what it says when I try.
> >
> > Using the NFS method you can just point anaconda at the directory on
> > the NFS server containing the iso (or iso's if you use the cd images)
> > and anaconda will take care of reading the files from the iso.  No
> > loopback mounting needed on your part.  It's quite handy.
> >
> Very handy. Yet people say Linux is soo hard to install. :(
>

It is when you are only familiar with pre-installed Windows OSs, have
little or no command line experience, and then encounter media, drive
(hardware recognition), and partitioning issues.




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