On 10 July 2010 20:36, Chris Rouch <chris.rouch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a heavily customised installation (lots of locally built rpms) > that i'm trying to install from kickstart and nfs. If I use a netinst > cdrom and pass the nfs location of the kickstart file without using > dhcp then this all works well. But If I use pxe/dhcp/tftp instead, it > gives me the "retrieving installation repo" message and then complains > about missing packages and installation groups. > > If I switch the VT2 I can see that on the working installation I have > the remote nfs directory mounted on /mnt/source. However on the PXE > installation, this directory is mounted on /mnt/isodir and /dev/loop1 > is mounted on /mnt/source. This latter contains a completely > different set of packages. This is completely repeatable - if I > comment out the dhcpd.conf entry and restart dhcpd everything works. > If I leave it in (even when booting from the cdrom) then it always > fails > > I'm seeing this from a vmware client, but I also see the PXE error > from a real laptop. > > How do I stop this happening? > I'd put the dvd.iso file in the top level directory. Anaconda "helpfully" decided that this, rather than the underlying filesystem was what I really wanted to use. I'm not sure if this is a bug or user error. in any case I have a working installation system now that i've moved the iso somewhere else. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
