On 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive. I > decided the easy way is to do a network install, and put the DVD image > on my file server. However, after trying the install command on both the > rescue CD and the boot.iso from the DVD, and exporting the data by both > NFS and HTTP, I'm beginning to think that there is a serious omission in > the "quick and easy" guide. The install pulls the stage2 file off the > server and then says it can't pull the file off the server and invites > reconfiguration. I can most definitely pull the file with correct md5sum > using either protocol. > > Looking at te HTTP access in the httpd/access log, it looks af if the > install looks first in the "disk1" directory, then directly in images, > but it finds the file just fine. > > One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find > distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say > i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume > this is configuration rather than needing a different build. > > Is there a simple trick or a pointer to valid instructions? I can > install FC8 on the machine just fine, but pulling a pre-release > distribution over a slow (4Mbit) network is not what I want other than a > proof of concept. > > > -- > bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > CTO TMR Associates, Inc > Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 For NFS install you only need to provide access to the iso file. The information here, http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall , is a little dated but the concepts should hold.
