FC3 NFS install with ISO images does not work

[Uday Kumar Reddy]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:25:45 -0500, Terry Polzin
<fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 10:14, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> 
> 
> > make sure you only have the install images in the dir, or anaconda WILL
> > screw up. Install images does not include rescuecd ;)
> >
> > man, 15.11.2004 kl. 03.25 skrev George Hill:
> > > 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?
> > > Thanks,
> 
> What image did you boot with.  I have found that you need to boot from the
> boot.iso from CD#1 or from the rescue CD for that version.  The boot.iso
> image from a different version gives me messages like the ones you describe.

Thats right; I once tried doing an FC3 install from the ISOs on my
hard-disk by booting from an FC2 boot CD: it did NOT work.

-- Uday

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