On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 15:01 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:55 +1030, Tim wrote: > >> Tim: > >>>> Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the > >>>> message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint > >>>> the problem. > >> Craig White : > >>> solution the same either way. > >> I'd have thought so, but I was asking in case there was some bug in the > >> newest install routine. > >> > >>> copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html > >>> path somewhere...good to go. > >>> > >>> mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 > >>> mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8 > >>> > >>> linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1 > >> It occurred to me that you could have some SELinux issues from that sort > >> of thing, if the contexts aren't in place to allow HTTP serving of those > >> files. > >> > >> I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what > >> protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the > >> files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO. > > ---- > > if you serve out as NFS, you don't need to loop mount. You only serve > > the iso's themselves via NFS > > > I think your terms "iso's" is the key, I used to export the tree with > the contents of the CD releases of everything up to FC5, possible FC6, > those distributions which came on CD. But now that the releases are > DVD-only, the installer can't seem to cope with the exported single ISO > image. Feel free to prove me wrong, if you can get a box to start > install past the point where it tries to get "stage2.img" you will be > past where I got using http or nfs export. > > Note that I was able to download the file with another machine using > either protocol, and verified the success with an MD5sum to be sure it > worked. The problem is with the install code, and I note that the > access.log of the http server shows that it is looking for things in a > "disk1/" directory, indicating the the install was moved from CD to DVD, > but the install script doesn't seem to have been. > > Again, feel free to point out some mistake I'm making, I've done a > *bunch* of machine with older distributions, and had no problem. And I > tried both the boot.iso from the DVD and the Live-CD install, with > stoppage at exactly the same point. ---- I wish that I could test out F7/F8 but I can see that it won't be possible for me to do that. I did install K12LTSP using that methodology but that was FC-6 and cd based iso's I am really geared up to install via http here as I run mrepo, and have repository installation setups for fc6-i386, fc7-i386, fc7-x86_64, fc7-ppc and am now downloading the DVD iso's for F8 In as much as I install - latest Dell Optiplex 320 with F7-x86_64 boot.iso via http... linux install \ method=http://my_mrepo_server/mrepo/fc7-x86_64/disc1 \ ks=http://my_http_server/auto.config/ks-fc7-x86_64.cfg I would expect that the NFS install should work as well but I simply can't test it out until well into next week as my primary concern is getting the various f8 local repository mirrors all functional and installs/updates rockin. Craig
