Install over NFS

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -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)
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > --
> > -=/>Thom
> > 
> 
> Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> anaconda to that destination.

This is not necessary. I've done many NFS installs without unpacking the
ISOs. Anaconda can do the loopback mount client-side for itself. Just
pointing it to the directory containing the ISO images should be
sufficient.

Paul.