On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 14:43, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > > > 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. :( > > There is a lot of old documentation around that still says you > have to extract all the rpms into a common directory to do > a network install. And it could be better: the boot sequence > has a timeout so if you walk away and aren't there at the > exactly the right time to enter 'linux askmethod' at the boot > prompt (and servers with a lot of RAM to test can take a long > time to get there) it bypasses the option and tries to install > from the CD's you didn't burn. I'd rather see 'askmethod' > as the default, with the local CD as the default choice so > it's just one more keypress if you do use the CDs but you'd > always get your choice. If you boot from the (small) boot.iso instead of CD1, askmethod is the default. Paul.
