Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote: > I do not have a DVD burner. > > I downloaded the F7 DVD to this computer, made /media/iso and did the > following: > > mount F-7-i386-DVD.iso /media/iso -t iso9660 -o loop > > When I view the directory it is as follows: > > ll --color=no /media/iso > total 487 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 284672 May 27 10:30 Fedora > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2882 May 27 10:40 fedora.css > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18385 May 27 10:40 GPL > drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 2048 May 27 10:40 images > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 2048 May 27 10:39 isolinux > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10000 May 27 10:40 README-BURNING-ISOS-en_US.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157555 May 27 10:40 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 2048 May 27 10:41 repodata > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1910 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1519 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1105 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1232 May 27 10:40 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 10:40 stylesheet-images > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3846 May 27 10:41 TRANS.TBL > > > Then using the "rescue disk" on another computer I attempt to start an > install. I have tried both NFS and FTP neither of have been able to > "see" this box[6] 192.168.1.6. > > The box[10] to be installed to presently runs Centos 4.4 and I can FTP > between the boxes without a problem and view the /media/iso directory. > > > If I tell it to do an NFS install it requests "NFS Server Name" > [192.168.1.6] and the "Fedora directory" [/media/iso] which seems > logical to me. > > That yields an error message "That directory could not be mounted from > the server." > > NFS is running: > > service nfs status > rpc.mountd (pid 28393) is running... > nfsd (pid 28390 28389 28388 28387 28386 28385 28384 28383) is running... > rpc.rquotad (pid 28376) is running... > > What am I doing wrong? Bob, On the computer hosting the /media/iso directories, what does "exportfs" tell you? If you don't see it in the export list, you will have to add it to your /etc/exports file, then do a "exportfs -a". The entry in /etc/exports should look like: /media/iso *(ro) > Bob Goodwin > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
