[K12OSN] Installing 4.2.0 via NFS (please HELP!)

[Onkar Harry]

-- richard ingalls <aslansreturn at yahoo.com> wrote:
For reasons beyond my understanding, I CANNOT install
from my CD ROM.  It boots from CD, normal boot screen,
hit <enter> at the prompt to begin normal install,
then no GUI and it asks me where I want to install
from: CD, hard drive, NFS, HTTP, etc.  If I choose
CDROM it tells me it cannot find a CDROM drive to
mount.  SO, I have copied the .ISOs to the hard drive
of this PC as well as to another LTSP server in my
building.  I have exported the directory (NFS) where
these .ISOs are located on the remote server, so I'm
ready to try installing via NFS.

Can anyone tell me how to proceed from here?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. 
Ultimately, my goal is just to get 4.2.0 installed on
this machine - I don't care what method I have to use
to accomplish this goal.

Any help?

Thanks.


Most of my installs are performed via NFS, its super fast.
Set the ISOs up in a directory and share them via NFS.
At the prompt type
linux askmethod
The rest is just entering the settings for your NFS server and share
name.
I usually burn only the first CD and boot off it and issue that command.
But since your CD ROM is not working you might want to create a boot
floppy, or optionally do a netboot.

Some usefull Links:
Howto install Fedora Core over NFS
http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall/

Installing Linux over NFS
The How's and Why's
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nfs_install.htm

-onkar