Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:19:21 +0200,
> Morten Hulden <morten untamo net> wrote:
>
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I just went to start downloading F7 torrent and all I could find was
>>> a DVD or a single CD live option. Are there not CDs for the complete
>>> install?
>>>
>>> I couldn't get the live CD to work on the machines that I use for my
>>> mail server and those machines don't have DVD drives.
>>>
>> If you have a spare partition that is not used in the installation you
>> can put the dvd iso-image on it. Then use the rescue cd to start the
>> installation, select hard disk method and point to the partition that
>> contains the iso image. this is also much faster than installing from
>> dvd drive.
>>
>
> Note that the partition also can not be part of a raid array (not even raid 1).
> I had some issues with that as all of the partitions on one of my machines were
> in raid arrays. I filed a bugzilla, but the response was that they didn't
> want to support this due to the bloat of needing extra drivers in stage1.
>
For the record, I have that problem to, albeit via LVM not RAID.
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