On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:40 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
As of test1(FC5), an install from .iso images on a local filesystem
would prevent the installer from mounting that filesystem in the newly-
installed system, even when the filesystem containing the .isos
would not be formatted by the install. This may seem minor,
but it is an installer limitation that makes no sense to a newbie.
s/to a newbie//
What bug number?
As of test1(FC5), an NFS install from a default installation of the
previous system (FC4) would fail because the firewall on the old box
prevents NFS from working.
Firewall breaks network. Film at 11.
If your download tool gave protection 0600 (-rw-------) to the .isos
on the exporting system, then the installer cannot see them, and the
installer's error message does not pinpoint the problem.
File a bug for the useless error message?
Note that I wasn't actually talking about an NFS install from .iso
images -- I was talking about a normal NFS install from the install tree
directly.
Anyone doing periodic tests of rawhide as the release approaches would
surely be rsyncing the expanded tree rather than downloading a full new
set of ISO images each time? And then it's a _very_ small amount of
network traffic to update that rawhide tree to the final release,
instead of yet another full download.
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dwmw2