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Hi, I am trying to perform a network install of Fedora on an old machine from an iMac that I use as a web server. On Mac OS X, I mounted the DVD.iso and copied the content to the folder made accessible to the network by apache. I used the boot CD and specified the IP address of the web server, and also the folder where the files are accessible. The installer retrieves the first package (minstr2.img if I remember well) and then says that the installation tree is not accessible and stops. I have already validated that the files copied from the DVD.iso are available from the machine - so I wonder if I need to mount the files differently. I looked for more info regarding network installs and tried to use the commands: mount -o loop /location/of/disk/space/diskX.iso /export/directory/ and also mount -o loop -t iso9660 /location/of/disk/space/diskX.iso /export/directory/ where /location/of/disk/space/diskX.iso and /export/directory/ are used as examples. (see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Installation_Guide/ch02s05s01.html) However, it does not seem to give any result on Mac OS X... Eventually I burnt the install CDs so that I can have Fedora on my old machine, but I think that network installs are the way forward as I just do not want to burn so many CDs each time I want to upgrade my system. I understand that this list is not dedicated to issues with Mac OS X but I went on Apple forums and read some of the answers given... the prospect of a solution from them is quite limited. Has anyone had a similar issue by any chance? Could someone help me progress please? At least, I would like to understand if it's just limitations from Mac OS X or if it's just me who is not using the ressource well. Many thanks, Bruno |
