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.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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).
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.
On the machine with dvd drive:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso
then transfer it to the target machine.