Install FC5 via FTP using loopback mounted iso's
Kwan Lowe
kwan at digitalhermit.com
Thu Apr 27 22:09:29 UTC 2006
> Is it possible to install FC5 via FTP, with the FC5 iso images mounted
> using loop-back on the ftp server? I've used this method with FC1-4,
> and RHEL3-4, but for FC5, it doesn't work. I haven't tried yet, but I
> could loop-back mount the FC5 iso's and copy the iso's to a directory on
> the ftp server, but the loop-back method is a nice method for saving
> disk space.
It's possible to do it with multiple CD ISOs, but much, much easier to do it with
the DVD iso. I set it up on the FTP server like this:
yum -y install vsftpd
mount -o loop /path/to/FC5_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub
service vsftpd start
Then it's just a matter of pointing the installation to the ftp server.
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