Installing FC5 by NFS --- remark --

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 13:08:49 UTC 2006


2006/3/21, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
> 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.
>
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Maybe having a nice "1001 ways of installing fedora" how to covering
those kinda topics. like detailed pxe usbpen etc boot/install methods.

what do you think?

regards,
rudolf kastl




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