F10 nfs installs

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sat Nov 29 05:43:46 UTC 2008


Mike Cloaked wrote:
> 
> Interestingly I was trying to set this up from an existing F9 system with
> SElinux enabled, and following the guidance at the page you quote I did:
> [root at physics30 f10]# mount -o loop
> /home/mike/isos/f10/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/tmp -t iso9660
> then 
> [root at physics30 f10]# cp -a /mnt/tmp/images .
> cp: cannot create directory `./images': Permission denied
> 
> This is the same whether root or user.  However cp -r does get copies of the
> files!

Don't use "cp -a" to copy read-only filesystems.  "cp" will create the 
destination directories with the same read-only permissions, and will be 
unable to write files into them.




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