F7 install from DVD iso -

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Wed Jun 6 21:01:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:55:41 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:

> Around 05:28pm on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 (UK time), Bob Goodwin - W2BOD
> scrawled:
> 
>> If I tell it to do an NFS install it requests "NFS Server Name"
>> [192.168.1.6] and the "Fedora directory" [/media/iso] which seems
>> logical to me.
> 
> I think that "Fedora directory" needs to be the (unmounted) directory
> that contains the iso, rather than a directory that has the iso mounted
> on it.

This isn't necessarily true; if you're using the DVD image, you can 
install from the mounted ISO filesystem from the server using NFS, HTTP, 
FTP, etc.  I suspect that it's faster than exporting the ISOs and letting 
Anaconda mount them over the network.  I just did it last night.

Wil




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