F7 install from DVD iso -

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> I do not have a DVD burner.
> 
> I downloaded the F7 DVD to this computer, made /media/iso and did the
> following:
> 
> mount F-7-i386-DVD.iso /media/iso -t iso9660 -o loop
> 
> When I view the directory it is as follows:
> 
> ll --color=no /media/iso
> total 487
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 284672 May 27 10:30 Fedora
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2882 May 27 10:40 fedora.css
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18385 May 27 10:40 GPL
> drwxrwxr-x 4 root root   2048 May 27 10:40 images
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root   2048 May 27 10:39 isolinux
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10000 May 27 10:40 README-BURNING-ISOS-en_US.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157555 May 27 10:40 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root   2048 May 27 10:41 repodata
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1910 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1706 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1519 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1105 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1076 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1232 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 May 27 10:40 stylesheet-images
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   3846 May 27 10:41 TRANS.TBL
> 
> 
> Then using the "rescue disk" on another computer I attempt to start an
> install.  I have tried both NFS and FTP neither of have been able to
> "see" this box[6] 192.168.1.6.
> 
> The box[10] to be installed to presently runs Centos 4.4 and I can FTP
> between the boxes without a problem and view the /media/iso directory.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> That yields an error message "That directory could not be mounted from
> the server."
> 
> NFS is running:
> 
> service nfs status
> rpc.mountd (pid 28393) is running...
> nfsd (pid 28390 28389 28388 28387 28386 28385 28384 28383) is running...
> rpc.rquotad (pid 28376) is running...
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Bob,
	On the computer hosting the /media/iso directories, what does
"exportfs" tell you?  If you don't see it in the export list, you will
have to add it to your /etc/exports file, then do a "exportfs -a".  The
entry in /etc/exports should look like:

/media/iso	*(ro)

> Bob Goodwin
> 


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Kevin J. Cummings
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