Install over NFS

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 17:03:11 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 07:52, 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.

I think that means the nfs mount worked.

> 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.

Are the iso images in the /nfs directory or do you have
one or more subdirectory levels under that?  You have
to give the path to the directory containing the isos,
starting with the export point. 

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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