On 4/1/07, John DeDourek <dedourek@xxxxxx> wrote:
Doctor Who wrote: > I think I may have an issue with the CD drive on a machine that I want > to install Fedora on. So I was thinking of putting the ISO images on > another machine and make them available via http (or NFS). > > Assuming I have a directory like this with the ISOs, what do I do > during install to point to these remote images as the install source? > > Thanks. > I'm in that situation with Fedora core 6. I wanted to try FC7 test 2, but it only had the DVD available, if I read correctly. I now plan to try FC7 test 3. If it's only DVD, I will do the same thing, install over the network. Only, I don't want to bring up an NFS server just to install a test3 machine. I was rather hoping to do it using an ftp server. (I have some experience with ftp; absolutely none with NFS).
You can. Just loopback mount the iso image, e.g. "mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso", and share via ftp.
