On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 11:58, Hoyt wrote:
On Monday 16 August 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten Wade wrote:
> I had a few pieces I was going to write up to contribute to
>
FedoraNEWS.org about how to use ISOs as the source for the mirrored
> base. This lets you save disk space, and I'm sure I'm not the first
> person to figure it out, but I've never seen exactly how to do it. Is
> this something you do? I'd be happy to contribute the pieces to both
> the FDP and
FedoraNEWS.org.
I think it's better to use the DVD ISO images. (Use Chris Kloiber' mkdvdiso.sh
script on CD-ROM images.)
I've never downloaded one, since I only have a CD burner and am
conservative with my disk usage. It looks as if the DVD is both the
RPMS and SRPMS?
Simply mount them using the loopback option. When satisfied, put all
the
entries in fstab.
Right, much easier than my method, which involves an additional layer --
mounting them to /foo/disc{1,2,3,4} and making symlinks to the packages
into one monolithic folder, where some of the folders are real and some
are symlinks.
If you want to mount selected directories in different places to
conform to
the ftp file directory structure, use the mount --bind olddir newdir form of
the mount command.
Since I like to be able to burn CDs for various reasons, I probably
won't download the DVD until I have more disk space.
In terms of the tutorial, I'd recommend covering both methods, for the
same reason -- bandwidth and disk space issues. Some people will create
their initial mirror set from a CDs they get in the postal mail, because
their connection is too slow or costly to download 4+ gigs.
- Karsten
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