FC3 keeps on giving problems

[Andy Green]

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Paul Howarth wrote:

| An NFS server for FC3 installs doesn't need any fancy options though and
| the export can be done read-only. It also doesn't need any loopback
| mounting or other extraction of the ISO contents, which makes it a bit
| easier to set up and to use.

Sure.  NFS isn't hard to get running, and makes for an easy install.  I
just took against it as a protocol after reading stuff like this

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/security.html

and don't want it around.

| On the other hand, if you do extract (or symlink to) the packages from
| the loopback-mounted ISO images, and serve them out via HTTP, it takes
| very little extra effort to set up a local yum repository using those
| extracted packages, which is very handy if you have a bunch of machines
| to maintain and occasionally need to install extra packages.

Clearly true: I didn't try to create a private yum repo yet but it is
something I want to learn to do.  In the meanwhile, in a pinch, the http
server trick is a handy and functional trick to know which is why I
mentioned it, not because it obsoletes all the other methods.

- -Andy
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