On 5/10/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/10/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I must be missing something here. I can understand downloading the > > iso images, making CDs, then reading the CDs in to disk. At that > > point you can do a Disk or FTP install. > > > > You seem to be saying that with NFS you can use the iso images > > directly. I know its possible to do some sort of strange mount on > > these iso images and see the actual data, but I was going to have to > > look that up,- you seem to be saying that there is a askmethod > > method that can use them directly with NFS. Im going to have to > > load the CD and see just what it says when I try. > > Using the NFS method you can just point anaconda at the directory on > the NFS server containing the iso (or iso's if you use the cd images) > and anaconda will take care of reading the files from the iso. No > loopback mounting needed on your part. It's quite handy. > Very handy. Yet people say Linux is soo hard to install. :(
It is when you are only familiar with pre-installed Windows OSs, have little or no command line experience, and then encounter media, drive (hardware recognition), and partitioning issues.
