On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:37:48PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:04:18 -0700,
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> 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)
>
> 651884 FC2-i386-disc1.iso
> 650198 FC2-i386-disc2.iso
> 653336 FC2-i386-disc3.iso
> 198962 FC2-i386-disc4.iso
> 77668 FC2-i386-rescuecd.iso
> 509744 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
> 509762 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso
> 509742 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso
> 509774 FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso
>
> 960600 FC2-i386-disc4.iso/Fedora/RPMS/xfsprogs-2.6.13-1.i386.rpm
> 258170 FC2-i386-disc4.iso/Fedora/RPMS/xfsprogs-devel-2.6.13-1.i386.rpm
>
> Moving xfsprogs from disc4 to disc1 would fit, disc1 would go to 652822
> which is less than disc3.
>
> OTOH, you could copy all of disc1-4 into a single directory then boot
> disc1 using option 'askmethod'. Point the installer at the merged
> directory (either local or NFS) and you will never have to swap a CD
> again. Well worth it if you need to upgrade more than one machine.
If you are network-less there is a DVD image you can use if you don't
like CD-jokeying. And for kickstarting a series of machines you can
easily craft pxeboot environments automated with "linux xfs" :) :) :)
FC3 is already in test1 (there are three tests and then the final
release which is scheduled to land in October). Perhaps someone wants
to check whether this has been fixed by now, and if not let
jkatz/bugzilla know?
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