FC3 NFS install with ISO images does not work
Ed Hill
ed at eh3.com
Mon Nov 15 02:54:41 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:25 -0800, George Hill wrote:
> Can you do an NFS install using ISO images with FC3 as
> you could with FC2? I just tried and it did not work.
>
> With FC2, you could boot as linux askmethod, specify
> NFS, point to an NFS-mountable directory that
> contained the ISO images, and install. I tried that
> with FC3 and I get a message saying that it does not
> look like the directory contains Fedora. When I did a
> mount -o loop ... the NFS install went fine (until it
> ran out of stuff to install -- I could only mount one
> iso image). Anyone else run into this? Thoughts?
Hi George,
The directory layout you want is:
Fedora/RPMS/ <= copy all the RPMs from all the CDs
Fedora/base/ <= copy the "base" dir from the first CD
Ed
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