F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO
Hi,
I'm trying to install F11 via a ISO image via NFS.
This on a PS3.
I've tried the graphic installer and the text mode (passing boot option "linux text askmethod")
When I run in text mode the error seems to be that anaconda cannot find
"images/install.img" at the path I have entered.
Now, that path is *inside* the ISO and according to the installation documentation I do not need to
mount it.
Reading on google I've found that F10 had some issues and one had to add the content of "images" to
the directory containing the image.
Does this make sense to anyone?
Cheers
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4 comments
Re: F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO
Its been a while since I've done an ISO over NFS, but what are you
passing as the NFS params? If you haven't renamed the ISO you should
just be able to give it the directory with the ISO in it.
Alternatively, can you mount the ISO on the NFS share then install from that?
Re: F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO
Hi
You need to get at the install.img file and put it in subdirectory
images on the NFS server
In my case the iso is in /exports/global/cdrw/F11 and the final
structure looks like this
maui.jaa.org.uk F11 1004# ls -lR /exports/global/cdrw/F11
/exports/global/cdrw/F11:
total 4172172
-rw-r--r-- 1 ja sysadmin 4268124160 Jun 9 22:25 Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 09:45 images
/exports/global/cdrw/F11/images:
total 113780
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116391936 Jun 10 09:45 install.img
mkdir /exports/global/cdrw/F11/images
cp /mnt/zip/images/install.img /exports/global/cdrw/F11/images
umount /mnt/zip
Then when asked at install time enter
/exports/global/cdrw/F11
John
Re: F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO
thanks for the instructions. I will try this.
I wonder why none of that is mentioned in the installation notes.
<a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ch03s05s02.html" title="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ch03s05s02.html">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ch03s05s02.html</a>
Andrea
Re: F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO
nothing.
this is the way I normally mount it (from my laptop's /etc/fstab)
magazzino:/public /mnt/nas/public nfs defaults,noauto,tcp,user 0 0
it works without tcp as well.
then I tried
server "magazzino"
path (of the folder containing the iso) = "/public/....."
Reading the log of anaconda it seems it tries 1st to retrieve it already mounted, then it tries to
mount it (but it does not show exactly the mount command.
it is on a NAS that cannot mount iso unfortunately.
IIRC when I installed F9 I succeeded, then I tried F10 and had to go via Internet.
I would like it to be easier (and easier to detect user error)
1) clearly let the user specify if the ISO is mounted or not
2) print exactly the mount command (with error message) so that people can find workaround.
Andrea