Install over NFS

[Thomas Paine]

I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
are good to go.

I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.

my /etc/exports has just one line

/nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)

which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.

And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
and can't seem to get it to go.

Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.

Thanks.
--
-=/>Thom

[Jamie Bohr]

You may want to try the following command from a UNIX system to verify the
export is working:

/usr/sbin/showmount -e <host ip>

In your case the above should something like the following:

/nfs  10.10 ....

If not, verify NFS is running on the host you are try to export from. Also
you may want to shutoff the firewall (/sbin/service iptables stop) for
testing and try again.

Also, please clarify the command you are using to get to the nfs server,
such as

linux ks=nfs:<host>:/nfs/<somepath> ksdevice=eth0 ....

- Jamie

On 1/29/06, Thom Paine  wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> are good to go.
>
> I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
>
> my /etc/exports has just one line
>
> /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)
>
> which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file
> though.
>
> And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> and can't seem to get it to go.
>
> Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.
> Thanks.
>
> -=/>Thom
>
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[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:52:21AM -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> are good to go.
>
> I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
>
> my /etc/exports has just one line
>
> /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)

I have (ro,no_root_squash,sync) in mine, which does work.
> which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.
>
> And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> and can't seem to get it to go.
>
> Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.

What do your log files say? Prior to mounting, run

tail -f /var/log/messages

and see what it does.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> are good to go.
>
> I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
>
> my /etc/exports has just one line
>
> /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)
>
> which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.
>
> And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> and can't seem to get it to go.
>
> Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.
> Thanks.
>
> -=/>Thom

Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
anaconda to that destination.

ISO unpacking:

mkdir /temp/mnt
mkdir /nfs/fc5t2/

while FILE in *.iso; do
    mount -t iso9660 $FILE /temp/mnt -o loop
    cp -R /temp/mnt/* /nfs/fc5t2/
    umount /temp/mnt
done

Now point the anaconda to /nfs/fc5t2 on the target server.

Gilboa

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> > I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> > to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> > are good to go.
> >
> > I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> > my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> > seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
> >
> > my /etc/exports has just one line
> >
> > /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)
> >
> > which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.
> >
> > And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> > server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> > and can't seem to get it to go.
> >
> > Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -=/>Thom
>
> Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> anaconda to that destination.

This is not necessary. I've done many NFS installs without unpacking the
ISOs. Anaconda can do the loopback mount client-side for itself. Just
pointing it to the directory containing the ISO images should be
sufficient.

Paul.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 15:20 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> > > to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> > > are good to go.
> > >
> > > I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> > > my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> > > seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
> > >
> > > my /etc/exports has just one line
> > >
> > > /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)
> > >
> > > which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.
> > >
> > > And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> > > server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> > > and can't seem to get it to go.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > -=/>Thom
> >
> > Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> > You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> > anaconda to that destination.
>
> This is not necessary. I've done many NFS installs without unpacking the
> ISOs. Anaconda can do the loopback mount client-side for itself. Just
> pointing it to the directory containing the ISO images should be
> sufficient.
>
> Paul.

My wrong, then. ("Packed iso" install never worked for me.)

Gilboa

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> anaconda to that destination.

I thought that NFS installs would only use ISO files on the server?
Granted that you've got to have the installation routines available as
files on the machine that you're going to install onto, but it accessed
the disk images remotely.

To install from a directory tree of installation RPMs over a network, I
had to use the HTTP method.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 01:57 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:14 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> > You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> > anaconda to that destination.
>
> I thought that NFS installs would only use ISO files on the server?
> Granted that you've got to have the installation routines available as
> files on the machine that you're going to install onto, but it accessed
> the disk images remotely.
>
> To install from a directory tree of installation RPMs over a network, I
> had to use the HTTP method.

I've been told, that NFS install can handle packed ISO. (Though it never
worked for me).
I've been doing nfs installs since RH7.x; always unpacking the RPMs (and
base image) before the installation, and it never failed. (Both on
RHEL/CENTOS and FC)

Gilboa

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 09:48, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> > > You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> > > anaconda to that destination.
> >
> > I thought that NFS installs would only use ISO files on the server?
> > Granted that you've got to have the installation routines available as
> > files on the machine that you're going to install onto, but it accessed
> > the disk images remotely.
> >
> > To install from a directory tree of installation RPMs over a network, I
> > had to use the HTTP method.
>
> I've been told, that NFS install can handle packed ISO. (Though it never
> worked for me).
> I've been doing nfs installs since RH7.x; always unpacking the RPMs (and
> base image) before the installation, and it never failed. (Both on
> RHEL/CENTOS and FC)

How did it fail for you?  I'm not sure RH7.x did it, but all
subsequent RH/Fedora versions should work by simply
downloading the iso images into an NFS-exported directory,
burning only the 1st CD to boot, entering 'linux askmethod'
at the boot prompt and picking nfs as the method.  You
can also boot from a USB flash drive with a copy of the
diskboot.img file from the images directory on the 1st
CD.  You do have to use a boot image that matches
the install set.  It is so much faster and easier than
the other ways that I rarely install any other way.

[Robert L Cochran]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:52 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> > I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> > to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> > are good to go.
> >
> > I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> > my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> > seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.
> >
> > my /etc/exports has just one line
> >
> > /nfs 10.10.10.0/24(ro,sync)
> >
> > which I have dropped the FC5 iso into. I didn't put the md5sum file though.
> >
> > And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> > server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> > and can't seem to get it to go.
> >
> > Any ideas? I don't have a DVD drive for the laptop to burn it to.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -=/>Thom
>
> Having the ISO files on the target server is not enough.
> You'll need to unpack the ISO into a single directory and point the
> anaconda to that destination.
>
> ISO unpacking:
>
> mkdir /temp/mnt
> mkdir /nfs/fc5t2/
>
> while FILE in *.iso; do
>    mount -t iso9660 $FILE /temp/mnt -o loop
>    cp -R /temp/mnt/* /nfs/fc5t2/
>    umount /temp/mnt
> done
>
> Now point the anaconda to /nfs/fc5t2 on the target server.
>
> Gilboa

You can install Fedora Core directly from either the DVD or CD iso files 
using NFS. I've done this many, many times. I've never once unpacked an 
ISO. This feature has been available for quite a long time now.

I suspect the problem here is more due to NFS or directory permissions. 
Why do you need the sync option?

Bob Cochran

[Thomas Paine]

Thanks everyone. Turned out to be a bad iso. Now before you jump down
my throat for not md5summing it, I did that once. I downloaded the
file on my laptop, and then ran md5 on it. It passed. I then scp'd it
to one of my other computers so I could load it on my laptop and I
guess that is where it broke down.
I re downloaded it with my desktop directly, ran md5 and away it went.

So jsut for everyone's benefit, you can dump the iso in the nfs share
and install from there.

--
-=/>Thom

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 07:52, Thom Paine wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC5T2 over nfs. I googled and several sites say
> to just make an nfs share and dump the dvd iso file in there and you
> are good to go.
>
> I've tried this on my machine and I can't seem to connect to it with
> my laptop. I keep getting an error stating that the mountpoint doesn't
> seem to be a Fedora Core Installation Tree.

I think that means the nfs mount worked.
> And on my laptop I'm trying to install to I have my ip for the nfs
> server and the directory is just /nfs and I've tried it a few times
> and can't seem to get it to go.

Are the iso images in the /nfs directory or do you have
one or more subdirectory levels under that?  You have
to give the path to the directory containing the isos,
starting with the export point.