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On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 22:58 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I was just trying to figure out how to install from a DVD image</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on a system with only a CD drive, and went looking for the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">boot.iso file I used to be able to boot to access the DVD</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">image mounted under a web server in another computer.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I found the images directory and the README file in there</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">which describes boot.iso in glowing terms, but there isn't</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a boot.iso file in the image directory (at least not on</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the F13 beta x86_64 dvd).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">So how do I do the install these days? Download the netinst</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">iso file from the mirrors?</FONT>
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Tom,<BR>
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One obvious solution to your problem would be to download and burn the CD images instead of the DVD.<BR>
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There is a way to interrupt the boot sequence of CD disc1 (the DVD too for that matter) and select a network/alternative source (NFS, FTP, HTTP, local hard drive) for the installation ISO image. Unfortunately the keystroke sequence needed to access that method has pretty much faded from the documentation. I like to have that DVD ISO image on a second /dev/sdb1 hard drive partition. It's much faster compared to most CD/DVD drives.<BR>
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You're right about boot.iso not being there -- on both i386 and x86_64 beta DVD images. I haven't checked the CD images. It's not needed to install from DVD, however.<BR>
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--Doc Savage<BR>
Fairview Heights, IL
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