Install over NFS

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 01:57 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I thought that NFS installs would only use ISO files on the server?
> Granted that you've got to have the installation routines available as
> files on the machine that you're going to install onto, but it accessed
> the disk images remotely.
> 
> To install from a directory tree of installation RPMs over a network, I
> had to use the HTTP method.
> 

I've been told, that NFS install can handle packed ISO. (Though it never
worked for me).
I've been doing nfs installs since RH7.x; always unpacking the RPMs (and
base image) before the installation, and it never failed. (Both on
RHEL/CENTOS and FC)

Gilboa