On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -0500, Thom Paine wrote: > I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say > to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you > are good to go. > > I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with > my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't > seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree. > > my /etc/exports has just one line > > /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync) > > which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though. > > And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs > server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times > and can't seem to get it to go. > > Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to. > > Thanks. > -- > -=/>Thom > Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough. You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the anaconda to that destination. ISO unpacking: mkdir /temp/mnt mkdir /nfs/fc5t2/ while FILE in *.iso; do mount -t iso9660 $FILE /temp/mnt -o loop cp -R /temp/mnt/* /nfs/fc5t2/ umount /temp/mnt done Now point the anaconda to /nfs/fc5t2 on the target server. Gilboa
