DVD only?
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jun 1 15:37:12 UTC 2007
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:19:21 +0200,
Morten Hulden <morten at 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.
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