DVD only?

[Benjamin Lewis]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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.
>   
For the record, I have that problem to, albeit via LVM not RAID.

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