[lug] Redhat NFS installs: Substitute http?

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:40, D. Stimits wrote:
> I know RH is installable by NFS, but I hate to add NFS support to the 
> machine doing the export...does anyone know if placing the ISO's on a 
> web server would work? I know that kickstart has some http support, but 
> it seems that direct ISO install does not work this way. It would be so 
> darn easy if one could install from an ISO over a web URL.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com


Hi Dan,

Its been years but I have done RH installs over both FTP and HTTP.  Back
in the RH 6.x days I did a few installs by starting from a boot-able
floppy and then pulling all the RPMs from a specified URL.  I remember
that it worked quite nicely over a local 10/100Mbit network.

What I did was copy the ISO images onto the server and then made the
files contained within them available by first mounting over the
loopback device and then serving up (over anon-FTP or HTTP) those
directories.  You'll want to use something like

  mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop   file.iso   ./test

as your mount command.

I'd be willing to bet that you can do the same with the recent RH 7.3
and 8.0 versions (see "/images/bootnet.img" on the first ISO), I just
haven't had the need to use that install method.

hth,
Ed

ps - I have a pretty fast local KRUD-7.3 and RH-8.0 mirror setup at:

       ftp://gamma1.mines.edu/

     with all the contents mounted as above so you won't have to 
     setup your own server if you have a fast 'Net connection.


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