F10 NFS Install Query

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Thu Nov 27 11:20:03 UTC 2008


Simon Andrews wrote:
> 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?
> 
> I had the same problem.  Anaconda appends /images/image.img to the end 
> of the NFS path, which then fails.
> 
> This must be a big - I fail to see how it could be considered a feature.
> 
> Someone else reported that you can bypass the problem by specifying your 
> nfs directory in the initial boot options:
> 
> method=nfsiso:example.com:/some/dir/
> 
> This worked for me.

I've reported this as a bug BZ#473251

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