F9 NFS install fails

[Amadeus W.M.]

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.
> --
>                 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.