On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 03:58 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:06 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > I'm trying to install F9 on a machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. I > > burned the boot.iso and boot from that. > > > > I mount the install DVD on another machine and NFS export it. I can > > mount the exported directory on another machine (and even that machine > > booted with its current F7). > > > > I boot for the boot ISO and select NFS install. I assign the IPv4 > > address, netmask, gateway, and nameserver as they are defined for other > > machines on the LAN and specify the IP address and directory of the NFS > > serving machine. IPv6 is disabled. > > > > But the installer is always unable to mount the NFS volume. > > > > Is there something I'm missing? > > > > TIA. > > When installing from alternative media such as the hard disk or nfs, you > tell the installer the drive (e.g. /dev/sda2) and the directory where the > actual ISO image resides (e.g. Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso). That was it, thanks! > > To make the install faster, do a hard disk install. That is, put the iso > image on the machine you want to install, on a partition that you do not > format during the install (e.g. in /home/user). If you're installing on a > machine that's not already running linux, then you must do a network > install. It didn't seem as though the installer recognizes LVM volumes. But the net install is working fine. > > On the machine with dvd drive: > > dd if=/dev/dvd of=Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso > > then transfer it to the target machine. > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list