On 6/5/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > 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) > I created /etc/exports containing only the following line: /media/iso *(ro) Then I get: exportfs /media/iso <world> Which looks hopeful but the error message keeps coming up, "That directory could not be mounted from the server." I did service nfs restart after making changes ... I'm still missing something? Bob Goodwin
Did you open up the firewall for NFS?
