Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 128839
RFE: should be possible to use the installation tree on hd as source for hd install, not only isos
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:46 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: When doing a NFS install, either the iso images or the extracted installation tree can be used as source for the install. On an hd install, there must be the isos on the hd. The installation tree is not accepted by anaconda, but it should be. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download the fedora core 1 installation tree from pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ 2. try to use it as source for a hd install Actual Results: anaconda says its not a valid source. Expected Results: the installation tree should be a vaild source for hd installs. Additional info: anaconda never says that a hd install with the installation tree is possible, it always says you need the isos on hd, but it should be possible to use the tree.
Hard drive trees used to be supported and were a *major* support problem. The code isn't coming back (in fact, nfsiso is becoming preferred over nfs trees as well)
So if I want to have a local yum repository mirror of fc1 and a source for hd and nfs installs, I'm supposed to have the tree and the isos? Isn't this a waste of hd space?