I'm still getting an "Unable to read header list" error, when trying to
retrieve the package information.
I'm using newly downloaded ISO's, using the same procedure working,
right now, for my RH7.3 kickstart depository.
Any thoughts?
Duncan
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 09:27 AM, Richard Black wrote:
You can install directly from the ISO images via NFS, just put the
first 3 CDs in a directory on an NFS share.
To see what's in the ISO image, then mount it with the -o loop option.
manually like this:
mkdir shrike-i386-disc1.iso.dir
mount shrike-i386-disc1.iso shrike-i386-disc1.iso.dir -o loop
Or in a for loop like this:
for X in 1 2 3; do ISO=shrike-i386-disc$X.iso; mkdir $ISO.dir; mount
$ISO $ISO.dir -o loop; done
ls *.dir
Unpacking can be done like this:
mkdir i386
(cd shrike-i386-disc1.iso.dir && tar -cf - .)|(cd i386 && tar -xvf -)
So NFS will save you space on your file server by allowing you to
install from ISO images rather than having the CDs unpacked into
directories. Also, later when mounting the NFS share from the
installed clients, just do the same to access anything in the ISO
images:
mkdir /mnt/nfs
mount 172.48.0.1:/var/ftp/pub/rhl9 /mnt/nfs
cd /mnt/nfs
for X in *.iso; do mount $X $X.dir -o loop; done
Then unmount the ISO images before unmounting /mnt/nfs
Also the items such as redhat-config-packages and
redhat-install-packages will work directly with ISO images as well.
--RB
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duncan wrote:
stupid question.
I had a lot of problem getting RH9 cd's to copy on to my kickstart
server.
I copy everything over as I did when I successfully setup my RH7.3
images. Unfortunately, when I try my new ks install via the RH9
image, I get a "Unable to read header list" error.
So I want to pull-down new ISO images, and extract them directly on
my Linux server dedicated to kickstart, but I don't know how to
expand the ISO images on linux.
Help.
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