On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 09:48, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I thought that NFS installs would only use ISO files on the server? > > Granted that you've got to have the installation routines available as > > files on the machine that you're going to install onto, but it accessed > > the disk images remotely. > > > > To install from a directory tree of installation RPMs over a network, I > > had to use the HTTP method. > > > > I've been told, that NFS install can handle packed ISO. (Though it never > worked for me). > I've been doing nfs installs since RH7.x; always unpacking the RPMs (and > base image) before the installation, and it never failed. (Both on > RHEL/CENTOS and FC) How did it fail for you? I'm not sure RH7.x did it, but all subsequent RH/Fedora versions should work by simply downloading the iso images into an NFS-exported directory, burning only the 1st CD to boot, entering 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt and picking nfs as the method. You can also boot from a USB flash drive with a copy of the diskboot.img file from the images directory on the 1st CD. You do have to use a boot image that matches the install set. It is so much faster and easier than the other ways that I rarely install any other way. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
