FC3 NFS install with ISO images does not work

Carl Parrish cparrish at carlparrish.com
Tue Nov 16 04:54:41 UTC 2004


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?
>Thanks,
>
>      Geo Hill
>
>
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So far I've installed FC3 on 3 machines using NFS. On a different note I 
couldn't get any of them to install from CD using the same images.

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