Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 00:36 +1000, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
would be really neat is to specify a location say a nfs share that has the iso images and the package installer i.e yum, apt, or up2date could mount that isos and get the packages off without having to make a package tree
This reminds me of a doubt I have: Can one simply mount, say...
/mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc1.iso /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc1 auto defaults,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0
/mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc2.iso /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc2 auto defaults,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0
/mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc3.iso /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc3 auto defaults,loop=/dev/loop2 0 0
/mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc4.iso /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc4 auto defaults,loop=/dev/loop3 0 0
and then point askmethod to ftp://server/pub/fc2/ ?
Is this possible, or something like it?
I don't know if the installer can read the ISOs like that. Here is what I did:
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mkdir /home/mirrors/FC2
mkdir iso
mount FC2-i386-disc1.iso iso -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop3
cp -a iso/* /home/mirrors/FC2
umount iso
mount FC2-i386-disc2.iso iso -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop3
cp -a iso/* /home/mirrors/FC2
umount iso
mount FC2-i386-disc3.iso iso -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop3
cp -a iso/* /home/mirrors/FC2
umount iso
mount FC2-i386-disc4.iso iso -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop3
cp -a iso/* /home/mirrors/FC2
umount iso
rmdir iso
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Note: It will complain about duplicate TRANS.TBL files. It does not matter if you overwrite those on each 'cp' or not.
I have a symlink like this: ln -s /home/mirrors /var/www/html/mirrors
At install time I use the http protocal, the host name of my server and /mirrors/FC2 as the path. FTP should work similarly.
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