Re: NFS Install is Impossible from CD/ISO's

[rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Carl Litt wrote:
> > I just encountered a disappointing oversight in the install process for
> > RedHat 7.3.  I have booted my new system on the bootnet floppy and
> > proceeded with the NFS image install.  My 7.3 ISO's are exported from
> > a fileserver.  I don't see the need to burn the images and install a CD 
> > drive in every machine I have to install when I have this nifty NFS
> > option.
> > 
> > So after 2 hours of selecting packages and waiting for badblocks, I run 
> > into a terminal error:  "The file /mnt/source/.... cannot be opened.   
> > This is due to a missing file... Press <return> to try again".  Well of 
> > course, the installer doesn't bother trying to "switch discs" in an NFS 
> > install.  And since it appears to still be using the disc1 image I can't 
> > unmount/mount the new discs in it's place.  Did anybody ever _try_ an 
> > NFS install before you rolled this out?  It seems like a pretty important 
> > feature to me.
> > 
> > Come on, guys, even _Windows 95_ prompts you for alternate paths...
> 
> Did you send this info to RedHat via bugzilla?  They would like to
> hear about this sort of thing.

the docs seem pretty clear about this -- all network-based installs
(NFS, FTP, HTTP) will *not* work with individually-mounted ISO images.
these types of ks installs *require* a Red Hat installation tree, with
all of the RPMs copies under a single directory structure on the
server, which furthermore must be under the subdirectory RedHat/RPMS.

this is not a bug -- it's clearly documented.

rday