Bug 80362

Summary: RFE: Implement harddrive ISO graphical install
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Warren Togami 2002-12-24 23:20:38 UTC
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Description of problem:
Currently graphical installation is available with NFS loopback mounted ISO
images but not ISO images on a local hard drive partition.

Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>* Why isn't X installation available in hard disk ISO installation?
> 
> The reason used to be because we couldn't load the stage2 needed for
> graphical installations into RAM and we couldn't just loopback mount
> it because that would make the disk busy while trying to repartition.
> With parted 1.6, this should be a moot point, it's just not been high
> on the list of things to find time to look into :/

Should be possible to implement.

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Phoebe

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-04-02 20:35:33 UTC
Done.