Install over NFS

[Robert L Cochran]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
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>>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
>>
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>>
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>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.
>
>ISO unpacking:
>
>mkdir /temp/mnt
>mkdir /nfs/fc5t2/
>
>while FILE in *.iso; do
>	mount -t iso9660 $FILE /temp/mnt -o loop
>	cp -R /temp/mnt/* /nfs/fc5t2/
>	umount /temp/mnt
>done
>
>Now point the anaconda to /nfs/fc5t2 on the target server.
>
>Gilboa
>
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You can install Fedora Core directly from either the DVD or CD iso files 
using NFS. I've done this many, many times. I've never once unpacked an 
ISO. This feature has been available for quite a long time now.

I suspect the problem here is more due to NFS or directory permissions. 
Why do you need the sync option?

Bob Cochran