Re: Fedora 4 DVD install image missing?

"Lamont R. Peterson" <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:07:06 -0600

On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:09am, Bruce Feist wrote:
> I'm about to install Fedora 4 (64 bit version) on a new computer.  So, I
> went to find the DVD image on the RH Fedora site, but found only CD
> images.  Then I looked at the mirrors, and found that some of them had
> the DVD image as well as the CD images.  How can this be?
>
> I downloaded a DVD image from one of the mirrors, and burned a DVD...
> Fedora's CD check during installation reported that it's defective.  I'm
> currently trying again, with an image from a different mirror; I'm not
> optimistic that it'll work; we'll see.  If it doesn't work, I'll either
> download the CD images from RedHat, or install from a 32-bit install
> image instead (if I get way too lazy).

Here's another option:

1.  Download DVD or CD iso(s)
2.  Verify shasums
3.  loopback mount iso(s)
4.  copy all the content of the DVD/CDs to a directory on a file server
    (unfortunately, newer versions of NFS servers will not export any of the 
content of loopback mounted directories successfully, I used to do that and 
it worked well, but I have not taken the time to figure out how to get the 
NFS server to do it.  Another option is to use unionfs, which can be 
successfully exported, though I haven't tested it).

5.  Export via NFS (and/or FTP/HTTP.
6.  Burn a CD using the boot.iso image in the images/ directory on the first 
CD or on the DVD.
7.  Boot your system(s) using the boot.iso CD and do a network install.

I have found this to be much better way to install systems.  I have done 
upgrade installs this way for my AMD64 box.  You only use 1 CD (and it could 
be a little 50MB biz-card disc, if you want) and the network installation is 
MUCH faster than swapping discs or using the DVD.

Of course, I also burn a DVD-/+RW disc to carry the newest version of Fedora 
with me.  I would like to find a 2-sided DVD-/+RW disc to burn x86 on one side 
and AMD64 on the other.
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]