On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 03:58 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:06 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
I'm trying to install F9 on a machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. I
burned the boot.iso and boot from that.
I mount the install DVD on another machine and NFS export
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:06 +0930, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Not necessarily. You can access an ISO file on non-Linux partition
types, as well.
Amadeus W.M.:
Even ntfs?
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html
suggests yes (table at bottom of
Tim:
Wouldn't a DVD ISO be too large to fit on a FAT drive? I thought
they had a 2 gig file size limit.
Craig White:
mkfs can format up to 32 GB vfat volumes last time I checked. I
believe that Windows can format larger.
That's partition sizing, my comment was about file size limits. I
I'm trying to install F9 on a machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. I
burned the boot.iso and boot from that.
I mount the install DVD on another machine and NFS export it. I can
mount the exported directory on another machine (and even that machine
booted with its current F7).
I boot for the
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:06 -0400
Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there something I'm missing?
I think I have seen notes that say you are just supposed to
make the .iso file available via NFS, not the mounted
filesystem inside the iso.
I've often done installs via HTTP by
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:06 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
I'm trying to install F9 on a machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. I
burned the boot.iso and boot from that.
I mount the install DVD on another machine and NFS export it. I can
mount the exported directory on another machine
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 03:58 +, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
To make the install faster, do a hard disk install. That is, put the iso
image on the machine you want to install, on a partition that you do not
format during the install (e.g. in /home/user). If you're installing on a
machine that's
