From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) When I tried to do ftp install I get missing tetex-latex..and the install hangs. I downloaded the iso's and loop-mounted them. Only later, I realized that the ftp install is for installing from ftp sites...I realize this may be design...but I would imagine people without CD-ROM doing ftp install may run into problem...possible fixes would be to squeeze these files onto the first cd. There were only a few files involved. Or instruction to warn people that ftp install is specifically for "ftp site dists" Also, It's too slow to access bugzilla...could you host it at akamai or something...Redhat sites are way slow...this is part of marketing you do to promote your product in a fast, accessible manner, I guess. MS does it well. Also try to move away from FTP as method of distribution...perhaps HTTP is the way. ftp hangs browser for a while because it's not threated, I guess. also, the install program seems to misbehave in many places..the go back options was there but the changes/update information would make install crash or misbehave. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.s 2. 3.
If I understand your bug report, the fix is to copy both CDs into a single directory. We do not support loopback mounting the images at this time.
You're right. I started writing the last paragraph when I realize I need to write this. I'm just trying to say that you could solve a lot of confusions and support calls just by doing what I think is common sense...of course that's just my opinion. Your product should look good from the beginning...at the install phase and you should try to make it bulletproof as much as possible...Just think of some of these review articles, the first thing they mention is how easy a time they had to install the product. If due to their mistakes or whatever, it didn't go smoothly, chances are the rest of the review isn't very positive for that product. Maybe this should be passed to a manager to review. If you think this is redundant, then I'm not going to argue because the reason you gave that loop mounting is not yet supported. it's correct, it's working/(breaking) as it should. This fix could be as easy as determining the rpm's needed for successful laptop, server and destop installs. The rest of the files can be pushed back to the second CD. Then if someone does a custom install and the rpm's aren't on the first CD, you can tell them right off or suggest to copy or specify where the loop mount of the 2nd cd is. at the beginning, not at the near end of install.
We'll definately consider added support for loopback mounted ISOs in future releases. It has simply been a matter of time.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29811 ***