How to install fedora using ISO images on another machine
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 23:31:52 UTC 2007
On 4/1/07, John DeDourek <dedourek at unb.ca> wrote:
> Doctor Who wrote:
> > I think I may have an issue with the CD drive on a machine that I want
> > to install Fedora on. So I was thinking of putting the ISO images on
> > another machine and make them available via http (or NFS).
> >
> > Assuming I have a directory like this with the ISOs, what do I do
> > during install to point to these remote images as the install source?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> I'm in that situation with Fedora core 6. I wanted to
> try FC7 test 2, but it only had the DVD available, if
> I read correctly. I now plan to try FC7 test 3. If
> it's only DVD, I will do the same thing, install over
> the network. Only, I don't want to bring up an NFS
> server just to install a test3 machine. I was rather
> hoping to do it using an ftp server. (I have some experience
> with ftp; absolutely none with NFS).
>
You can. Just loopback mount the iso image, e.g. "mount -o loop -t
iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso", and share via ftp.
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