Install over NFS

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:52:21AM -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> are good to go.
> 
> I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
> 
> my /etc/exports has just one line
> 
> /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)

I have (ro,no_root_squash,sync) in mine, which does work.

> 
> which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.
> 
> And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> and can't seem to get it to go.
> 
> Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.

What do your log files say? Prior to mounting, run

tail -f /var/log/messages

and see what it does.

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