Duncan Berriman wrote: > I installed FC8 using http as I did not have a dvd on the system. > > Here is how I did it (may be other ways as this was my first attempt). > > Download the full dvd iso. > > Then either burn it to a dvd and configure your web server/ftp server to > allow access to the dvd or copy the files off the dvd to your web server/dvd > server. Alternatively extract the files directly from the iso to a directory > on to your web server/ftp server. > There is not need to copy the files. You can loop mount the .iso image. For example, I created a directory /var/www/html/Fedora and used "mount -o loop Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso /var/www/html/Fedora" to mount it. This gave access to the entire tree via html. > Download the Fedora Core 8 Rescue Disk iso image from > (/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/iso) and burn this on to a CD. > After you loop mount the DVD .iso image, you can grab one of the images in the images directory. There is a boot.iso and a bootdisk.img. I like to use the bootdisk.img on a USB memory drive. I have done a couple of installs this way. If you have a fast network local, it is faster then a DVD install. Getting the information from the hard drive of your server tends to be faster then reading a DVD. This is probably not the case when reading a DVD mounted on the server. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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