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Re: ISO installer for RH9 with XFS 1.3.1

To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ISO installer for RH9 with XFS 1.3.1
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 07:42:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Matthew Geier <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20040725080418.GA1026@taniwha.stupidest.org>
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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:17:42AM +1000, Matthew Geier wrote:
> 
> > It's all there, it's just if you do an XFS install and xfsprogs is
> > the only package it needs from CD4, at the start it won't say it
> > needs CD4, it will just 'spring that on you' later on when it
> > actually needs CD4 to get the xfsprogs packages off it.
> 
> this might sound silly, but i've never done a fc install so humor
> me...
> 
> i assume you can install *almost* everything you absolutely need from
> the first CD right?  except for xfsprogs on CD4 --- if that is the
> case shouldn't someone open a bug with RH to have this mode to CD1
> (since it's small I can't see why this would be a big deal)

The actual bug would be that it doesn't inform you that you'll need CD4 
until it's actually time to install that package.  I'm just as inclined to 
leave packages where they are on the CDs, but fix the actual functional 
bug.

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