On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:26 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
What was the thought behind removing it?
If you are using the boot.iso, then you don't need the boot prompt, as you automatically run in askmethod *mode* already. Now if you are using the disk1/dvd iso and all of a sudden want to use a network/hd based install, then not sure how to get it to askmethod.
This seems to be getting off topic. The important point was that installing off the usb disk by loopbacking to the DVD.iso file failed.
It looks to me like the problem was the usb disk was mounted already for it to show the directories and files for F2 mode, but then it was trying to mount the dvd.iso via loopback and a problem occurred there. Mounting to a iso file by loopback that's on a drive that's already mounted should be ok, I just tested it by mounting the same DVD file on my existing FC6 machine with the DVD.iso file being on my /home directory which is mounted....
# mount F-6.92-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/loopdir -o loop
# df /home/mos/local/azureus/Downloads/f7-test3-prime-i386/F-6.92-i386-DVD.iso 3050500 3050500 0 100% /mnt/loopdir
It also didn't help for me to just write down the proper file position in the "Directory:" text entry, that just resulted in a error about there not being no CD images in the directory. I made sure the directory name was ok.
Mark
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Mark Schlegel