On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 18:20 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to make an external usb disk bootable and install my system > from this disk. But i would _not_ like to copy iso images to the disk > but the content of the iso ie: images/ and Packages/ dir and a few > kickstart file. can i run anaconda to use the 'on disk' repo instead of > the iso? i can only find ftp, http and harddisk repo, but something like > file://.. repo definition would be useful. > thanks in advance. > regards. > That was removed from anaconda a couple of years ago, It was felt that with a writeable repo, that a user could mess up the install by altering the repo. I argued against removing that method for installs, but it still exists for use with pre-upgrade. Think I have a workaround, add an fstab entry to mount your usbkey at /var/cache/yum/, use an ks file that has "install" in it, and pass ks="file location" and preupgrade at the boot prompt. Jerry _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
