Installing FC5 by NFS --- remark --

[Paul Howarth]

Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
> I tried to install FC5 using the NFS method by copying the Fedora 
> directory from the installation
> DVD as I read in the README in the DVD root. But this is not sufficient: 
> I had to copy the directory
> 
>     repodata
> 
> too from the DVD root to the target server into the same directory 
> whereto I copied the Fedora directory.
> 
> Otherwise anaconda stops the FC5 install/update with a "repodata not 
> found" error message.

This README could certainly do with an update. It hasn't been necessary 
to "explode" the contents of the ISOs for NFS installs for a long time 
now - you can just point the installer at an NFS share directory 
containing the ISOs themselves.

Paul.