Re: mounting cd on net install

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On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 17:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:53:51PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > I just noticed that the FC2t3 anacoda tries to mount the CDROM before it
> > > goes to the network, even if a network install method is given. Is there a
> > > good reason for this that I'm overlooking?
> > So that you can use a CD with a stage2.img and not have to download it.
> > Nice for FTP/HTTP installs as you get the packages over the network but
> > don't have the memory overhead of the 70 meg stage2.img in a ramdisk.
> 
> I guess that makes sense. :)
> 
> On the downside, that'd make the net install image not fit on a 30MB
> business-card CD. :)

No, but it does fit on some of the other small form factor CDs.  The
rescue CD can be used for this purpose.

> I guess it doesn't hurt to have the check there.

And it can be quite useful :-)

Jeremy



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