Re: Network install failure

[Matt Whiteley]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 09:04, Mike McLean wrote:
>  <snip>
>  The network install methods are: nfs, ftp, http, nfsiso, httpdisc, and 
>  ftpdisc.
>  
>  - nfs, ftp, and http installs work off of a unified tree (All rpms in a 
>  single tree) that is accessible via the given protocol.
>  
>  - nfsiso works off of an nfs directory containing the isos (and nothing 
>  else!).  No other network install method can use raw isos.
>  
>  - ftpdisc and httpdisc work off of a directory containing the split tree 
>  (one subdirectory per disc).  So you might point the installer at 
>  http://myserver/Severn/discs/ where the discs directory contains 
>  subdirectories disc1, disc2, and disc3 which themselves contain the 
>  contents of the three discs.  The idea behind these methods is that you 
>  can loopback mount the three isos on your server, make those mountpoint 
>  accessible via ftp or http, and run a network install off of that. 
This was so much easier and complete to understand than what I read in
the manual.

thanks,

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Matt Whiteley <matt-whiteley(a)comcast.net&gt;