Installing Fedora from a NFS server.

[Vic Ricker]

Make sure you have all 4 isos exported.  I only have the first 3 because
that's all I ever need.  The installer checks for all 4 whether you need
them or not. (bug?)  To get around this, you can mount the isos and copy
the files to your exported directory.

If you don't have a cdrom drive, and you're doing an upgrade, it's
possible to mount the install image, copy the files to somewhere in
/boot, add it to grub.conf as "Fedora Core 2 Installer", reboot, choose
the new option.  The install will start from the hard drive.



On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:09, William Hooper wrote:
> Gustavo Gobi Martinelli said:
> [snip]
> > I read the RedHat 9 documentation about NFS server and I have to have a
> > mirror from the NFS server of the RedHat. So, what is the address of the
> > Fedora NFS
> > server?
> 
> I think you misread the documentation.  You just need a server with the
> same file structure as a mirror server (for example
> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/ ).
> 
> You could make it even easier by just using the ISOs as the source.  Put
> the 4 ISOs in a directory by themselves, export it via NFS, and there you
> have it.  Boot the new machine either using the first CD or using the
> boot.iso image and tell it you are doing an NFS install.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
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-Vic Ricker