On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:46 -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:21 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > > Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > [snip] > > > Assuming you have a running NFS server someplace, you're looking to > > > _combine_ all these images together into one directory, copying them > > > from these ISOs. > > > > If you are using NFS, just point it to the directory the ISOs are in. NFS > > installs can use the ISO images instead of an exploded tree. > > Are you serious? It knows how to deal with these, without the > copying step? > > That's incredible. But then, we've taken Linux to places Unix never > envisioned before... It does this by doing the loopback mounting of the ISO images on the client rather than the server. "Very Unix", as you would say :-) It works with the DVD ISO too if you don't have the CD ISOs. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
