AW: Fedora Core 1 Installation via NFS / no Fedora Core InstallationTree

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Tobias Glasow wrote:

>hello again,
>
>i am just getting desperate with this problem. is there nobody out there,
>who could help me? :)
>
>tobias
>  
>
>>any more ideas what is going wrong?
>>    
>>
I have done this any number of times with different hardware that I am 
installing onto.
Did you follow the directions in the README file as follows?

> If you are setting up an installation tree for NFS, FTP, or HTTP
> installations, you need to copy the RELEASE-NOTES files and all files
> from the RedHat directory on discs 1-3. On Linux and Unix systems, the
> following process will properly configure the /target/directory on
> your server (repeat for each disc):
>                                                                                
>  
>     1) Insert disc
>     2) mount /mnt/cdrom
>     3) cp -a /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /target/directory
>     4) cp /mnt/cdrom/RELEASE-NOTES* /target/directory
>     5) umount /mnt/cdrom

Of course you can mount the iso images via loop device instead of 
mounting cdrom disc.  But did you copy contents as indicated from each 
iso image?

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