FC3 NFS install with ISO images does not work

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Mon Nov 15 15:25:45 UTC 2004


On Monday 15 November 2004 10:14, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> make sure you only have the install images in the dir, or anaconda WILL
> screw up. Install images does not include rescuecd ;)
>
> man, 15.11.2004 kl. 03.25 skrev George Hill:
> > Can you do an NFS install using ISO images with FC3 as
> > you could with FC2? I just tried and it did not work.
> >
> > With FC2, you could boot as linux askmethod, specify
> > NFS, point to an NFS-mountable directory that
> > contained the ISO images, and install. I tried that
> > with FC3 and I get a message saying that it does not
> > look like the directory contains Fedora. When I did a
> > mount -o loop ... the NFS install went fine (until it
> > ran out of stuff to install -- I could only mount one
> > iso image). Anyone else run into this? Thoughts?
> > Thanks,

What image did you boot with.  I have found that you need to boot from the 
boot.iso from CD#1 or from the rescue CD for that version.  The boot.iso 
image from a different version gives me messages like the ones you describe.




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