On Monday, April 09, 2012 12:48:44 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > (I hope some day the SL installer will learn how to install RPMs from a > directory > instead of from an ISO image. On this happy day we will gain the ability to > customise the installer by adding and removing packages as we wish, without > hassle.
Anaconda used to do this, years ago. It was a conscious upstream decision to disable 'hard disk' installs from collections of RPM's. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976#c2 > Note that the SL installer installs from a directory full of RPMs when booted > from > the network, but refuses to do so if booted from USB. I guess they are trying > to > be friendly and helpful). http:// installs do this; the presumption is that, while the hard disk install may not have a properly 'closed' set of packages, the webserver will. 'Closed' in that sentence is in the context of dependency resolution. Also, loopback mounting the ISO from http:// is a tad difficult, but it is easy with a 'hard disk' install (which is what the USB key really is). Now, actually using the created USB key has a few caveats as well, but the exact ones depend upon how that key was created.
