Install or Upgrade to Fedora 7 with dud DVD

Simon Slater pyevet at aapt.net.au
Wed Oct 3 05:25:40 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 00:10 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
> On 10/2/07, Simon Slater <pyevet at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> > I tried an NFS install but the error message (from memory) indicated
> > that I had not exported the directory appropriately.  To what
> > should /etc/exports be pointed for an installing computer to find it?
> 
> My relevant line looks like this:
> /mnt/centos               192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
> 
> You may need to change the network parameters...  /mnt/centos is where
> I mounted the CD iso.
> 
> >From (failing) memory, i supplied th IP of the server, and /mnt/centos
> as the path at install time, and it went from there.
> 
> iptables might be an issue - you may have to allow nfs through
> whatever firewall you're using.
> 
> Chris
> 
Thanks Chris!

Anaconda is running, so I'll proceed with the install and post back the
results. Must have forgot that an IP address could go in /etc/exports
and cover the whole LAN.


-- 
Regards
Simon




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