[WBEL-devel] anaconda issue

David L. Parsley parsley@linuxjedi.org
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:30:00 -0500


On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:58, William Hooper wrote:
> David L. Parsley  said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought I would check out the WBEL final bits, and tried doing an NFS
> > install with a directory full of ISO images; but that didn't work for
> > me.  It just kept saying 'that doesn't look like a wbel directory'.
> > Strangely, when 'boot.iso' was in that directory, it tried to mount it -
> > but found it unusable.
> 
> Do you mean it failed when you had the boot.iso in the directory? 
> According to the docs, that's no-no.  Specifically, "You can only have the
> ISO images for one release and one variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in
> the directory." (adjust for Whitebox Enterprise Linux as necessary).

I mean it failed with or without boot.iso.  Also, with my own
rebuild/isos, it works even with boot.iso present.  This is a handy
install method I use quite often, so I thought I'd bring it up.

regards,
	David