On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:14:05PM -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > Michal Jaegermann wrote, On 03/27/2008 05:36 PM: > >On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:48:19PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > >>I have an rsync tree of rawhide on a local f8 partition. > >>I would like to install rawhide to another partition. > >>Is there a way without generating iso images? > > > >I did not look yet at the latest anaconda but it used to have > >among installation methods "from a local disk partition" > >(or something to that effect). That is what you are trying to find. > > > > Unfortunately some folks believe it causes too many bug reports against > anaconda > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976 Bummer! > I was wondering (have not had time to play) if you could tell it you were > doing an install from the web/ftp and when giving the URL give it > file:///where/my/repo/is/ My expectations would be that anaconda will try to find that URL with a help of a protocol you specified (http/ftp/nfs) and it will fail unless you are running a corresponding local server (and that is not there on standard installation images). Maybe to get around you can find where anaconda keeps a local cache of packages retrieved via http or ftp, fill up that cache with copies of what you have on a local disk and point anaconda to some remote server? What you already have likely will be not retrieved again. Sounds like a very roundabout hack. If you have another machine which you can use as an NFS server then a cross ethernet cable works just fine (or a "normal" hookup on LAN). With the layout described by OP you can boot from a local disk. That is likely the simplest and I used such approach a number of times; in particular when performing distro updates. > Like you I don't understand why it is so much harder to support the > Everything directory on the local hard drive vs NFS|HTTP|FTP. I have no idea. One would think that a "null" protocol would be the simplest thing to do but what I imagine how things work and reality could be quite divergent. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
