fedora 10 installer

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:43 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:44 -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> > The fedora 10 installer lost a feature that I really liked.  It lost the
> > ability to copy the kernel+initrd from the DVD ISO image onto an existing
> > /boot partition, boot the kernel, then do an NFS or Hard-drive install where
> > you just point it at the directory containing the DVD ISO image.  In the past,
> > that would just work.
> > 
> > Now it expects the directory you point it at to be "unpacked".  For NFS that
> > isn't too bad (you can loop-mount the ISO image on the server, but you need to
> > add a parameter to your exports file that allows nested filesystems to be
> > served), but for a Local Hard drive install, that means you need to copy
> > everything out of the ISO image onto the local filesystem.  That seems like a
> > waste of time and disk space.
> > 
> > Is there a magic switch that I can use to get the old behavior back?
> 
> Hrm. No indication in the anaconda changelog of support being removed.
> In fact, there's a bug about nfs iso installs being broken at one point
> (snap3) and being fixed:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468885
> 
> So it appears its *supposed* to work, but I can't say I've tried it...

Okay, I'm told:

you also need to create an images directory in the same dir as your ISO,
and copy install.img from the images directory inside the ISO to the new
images directory in your NFS dir or specify a stage2= on the command
line

--jarod