fedora 10 installer

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:44 -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> The fedora 10 installer lost a feature that I really liked.  It lost the
> ability to copy the kernel+initrd from the DVD ISO image onto an existing
> /boot partition, boot the kernel, then do an NFS or Hard-drive install where
> you just point it at the directory containing the DVD ISO image.  In the past,
> that would just work.
> 
> Now it expects the directory you point it at to be "unpacked".  For NFS that
> isn't too bad (you can loop-mount the ISO image on the server, but you need to
> add a parameter to your exports file that allows nested filesystems to be
> served), but for a Local Hard drive install, that means you need to copy
> everything out of the ISO image onto the local filesystem.  That seems like a
> waste of time and disk space.
> 
> Is there a magic switch that I can use to get the old behavior back?

Hrm. No indication in the anaconda changelog of support being removed.
In fact, there's a bug about nfs iso installs being broken at one point
(snap3) and being fixed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468885

So it appears its *supposed* to work, but I can't say I've tried it...

--jarod