Install FC5 via FTP using loopback mounted iso's
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Fri Apr 28 00:13:34 UTC 2006
Eric J. Feldhusen wrote:
> Is it possible to install FC5 via FTP, with the FC5 iso images mounted
> using loop-back on the ftp server? I've used this method with FC1-4,
> and RHEL3-4, but for FC5, it doesn't work. I haven't tried yet, but I
> could loop-back mount the FC5 iso's and copy the iso's to a directory on
> the ftp server, but the loop-back method is a nice method for saving
> disk space.
You can use symlinks, rather than copying the files, to conserve space.
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