F10 NFS Install Query

[Roger Heflin]

John Austin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file
> on the server for an NFS install
> 
> For F10 I needed to mount the file in loopback and copy the contents of
> the DVD to a separate directory before
> anaconda could find it - is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> Does anyone know if NFS exporting a loop mounted file
> is possible.  I could not see it when I tried this.
> 
> I did not want to fiddle with my main server too much
> Would the nohide option in /etc/exports do the trick ?
> 
> John
> 

I have done that before with non-iso filesystem in a file,
it has been a while though.

One thing to remember is you have to exportfs -r again after you
have mounted the ISO, otherwise only the underlying empty directory
is being exported from the original exportfs run.