I had high hopes for FC5, damn...

Russell Golden dragonite.wylie at verizon.net
Wed May 10 22:17:29 UTC 2006


Arthur Pemberton 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. :(
>
....They must not have any brain cells if they think that...




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