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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
