[lug] Redhat NFS installs: Substitute http?

[Nate Duehr]

Something I ran into doing this was that RH was looking for all of the
files in the same directory structure, making only the stuff on the
first CD usable unless you mounted the CD's and made a file structure
that mimics the CD with all three CD's RPM packages in it.

Meaning that mounting three ISO images in loopback mode didn't/wouldn't
work... unless something has changed.  The installer would only use the
stuff from the first location, i.e. the first CD.

Nate

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:28, Ed Hill wrote:
> 
> 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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