"Steven T. Hatton" wrote:
I am wondering if there is a way to put the entire DVD image on a hard drive which will most effeciently use the storage space. What I would like is to have the DVD image available on the network so I can hit it with NFS when I want to run YaST to add packages, etc. Is the image on the distribution disk compressed in a way that simply copying it using cp would uncompress it? Is there a "right" way to do this?
I do not know a lot about DVDs but... why do you want the image on the system? You could probably mount and copy everything to hard drive, sharing this with NFS. On the install, you need to specify the path on the server. Should work. You can also dd if=/dev/hdc of=myimage.iso, but how to access that file, shared vis NFS? You need large file support anyway. Since most stuff are compressed archives, further compression doesn't make sense. If you copy all the stuff, make sure to copy the "hidden" files as well, since this was source of a problem some time back. Juergen
TIA,
Steve
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