f8t2 nfs install fails

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Tue Sep 18 17:41:56 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 14:46 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
> Hello all,
>           I am trying to do an nfs install of f8-t2 i386. I mounted the
> nfs server (finally) on an f7 machine, slipped the rescue cd into the
> target machine and booted. Top option let me do an nfs install. It finds
> the directory, good.
>    But..then it says 'local media detected', the cd spins a lot, and a
> box pops up:
>    "The installer has tried to mount image #1 but cannot find it on the
> server.
>      please copy this image to the remote server's share path and click
> retry. Click exit to abort the installation"
> 
> what I have in the 'remote server's share path' is:
> 
> Fedora-7.91-i386-DVD.iso  Fedora-7.91-i386-rescuecd.iso  SHA1SUM

Not sure, but unless it's been changed, your only suppose to have the
iso's that you are installing with, nothing else.  So in this case, just
the dvd.iso and that's it (speaking in regards to the nfs server dir
path).

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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