Installing FC5 by NFS --- remark --
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Mar 21 13:03:48 UTC 2006
Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
> I tried to install FC5 using the NFS method by copying the Fedora
> directory from the installation
> DVD as I read in the README in the DVD root. But this is not sufficient:
> I had to copy the directory
>
> repodata
>
> too from the DVD root to the target server into the same directory
> whereto I copied the Fedora directory.
>
> Otherwise anaconda stops the FC5 install/update with a "repodata not
> found" error message.
This README could certainly do with an update. It hasn't been necessary
to "explode" the contents of the ISOs for NFS installs for a long time
now - you can just point the installer at an NFS share directory
containing the ISOs themselves.
Paul.
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