On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:14:05PM -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
Michal Jaegermann wrote, On 03/27/2008 05:36 PM:
>On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:48:19PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>>I have an rsync tree of rawhide on a local f8 partition.
>>I would like to install rawhide to another partition.
>>Is there a way without generating iso images?
>
>I did not look yet at the latest anaconda but it used to have
>among installation methods "from a local disk partition"
>(or something to that effect). That is what you are trying to find.
>
Unfortunately some folks believe it causes too many bug reports against
anaconda
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976
Bummer!
I was wondering (have not had time to play) if you could tell it you
were
doing an install from the web/ftp and when giving the URL give it
file:///where/my/repo/is/
My expectations would be that anaconda will try to find that URL
with a help of a protocol you specified (http/ftp/nfs) and it will
fail unless you are running a corresponding local server (and
that is not there on standard installation images).
Maybe to get around you can find where anaconda keeps a local
cache of packages retrieved via http or ftp, fill up that cache
with copies of what you have on a local disk and point anaconda
to some remote server? What you already have likely will be
not retrieved again. Sounds like a very roundabout hack.
If you have another machine which you can use as an NFS server
then a cross ethernet cable works just fine (or a "normal" hookup on
LAN). With the layout described by OP you can boot from a local
disk. That is likely the simplest and I used such approach a number
of times; in particular when performing distro updates.
Like you I don't understand why it is so much harder to support
the
Everything directory on the local hard drive vs NFS|HTTP|FTP.
I have no idea. One would think that a "null" protocol would
be the simplest thing to do but what I imagine how things work
and reality could be quite divergent.
Michal