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Re: 6.2 install -
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:36:30 -0700
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:18:37PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Monday, April 09, 2012 12:48:44 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> > (I hope some day the SL installer will learn how to install RPMs from a directory
> > instead of from an ISO image. On this happy day we will gain the ability to
> > customise the installer by adding and removing packages as we wish, without hassle.
> 
> Anaconda used to do this, years ago.  It was a conscious upstream decision to disable 'hard disk' installs from collections of RPM's. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976#c2
> 


Thank you for the reference. I agree that any vendor can only support systems installed
from a signed DVD image.


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Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
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