I think a point should be made, that crc checksumming the ISO's for
installing off an nfs mount is redundant. The RPM's are all checksummed by
the anaconda installer automatically during installation.

Thus, if you really were paranoid that the disk storing the nfs mount was
corrupting data, you'd find out pretty quickly when you tried to install it.

If you wanted to check the files against what's in another set of iso's you
could mount the iso's to loop and use rsync --checksum to verify the files.
But this seems like overkill.

Michael Joy
HEP - University of Mississippi
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Subject: Re: NFS Install of SL

Kickstart installs over NFS don't require the ISOs... refer to
the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide"

steve
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 > ---- Original Message ----
 > From: manchmal
 > Several reasons:
 > 1. I can check the integrity of an ISO image very quickly
 > 2. Storing both an ISO image and the contents of an ISO image uses
 > more disk space
 > 
 > I don't really want to use a loopback device either.
 > I remember reading that this was possible, and would like to know how to
d
 > o it.
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > 
 > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:57:07 +0100, Fabien Wernli <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:51:32PM +0100, manchmal wrote:
 > > > I was under the impression that an install from ISOs on an nfs share
 > > > is possible.
 > > > Is this not true?
 > > 
 > > Why would you want to do this?
 > >