F9 NFS install fails

[Matthew Saltzman-2]

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.
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[Tom Horsley-3]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:06 -0400
Matthew Saltzman <mjs@...> wrote:

> Is there something I'm missing?

I think I have seen notes that say you are just supposed to
make the .iso file available via NFS, not the mounted
filesystem inside the iso.

I've often done installs via HTTP by mounting the .iso file
under /var/www/html and pointing anaconda to that mount
directory on the web server (the HTTP install does want the
contents of the iso, not the iso itself).

The fastest installs for me have always been hard disk
installs. If there is a linux disk partition on the system you
are trying to install which can hang around during the install,
you could move the iso file over there.

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[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.
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>                 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.

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[Tim-163]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 03:58 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> 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.

Not necessarily.  You can access an ISO file on non-Linux partition
types, as well.

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[Amadeus W.M.]

>
> Not necessarily.  You can access an ISO file on non-Linux partition
> types, as well.
>


Even ntfs?

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[Tim-163]

Tim:
>> Not necessarily.  You can access an ISO file on non-Linux partition
>> types, as well.
 

Amadeus W.M.:
> Even ntfs?

<http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html> suggests yes (table at bottom of page) and no (second paragraph).  I haven't tried it, to see which is wrong.

Wouldn't a DVD ISO be too large to fit on a FAT drive?  I thought they
had a 2 gig file size limit.

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[Craig White-6]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:06 +0930, Tim wrote:

> Tim:
> >> Not necessarily.  You can access an ISO file on non-Linux partition
> >> types, as well.
>  
>
> Amadeus W.M.:
> > Even ntfs?
>
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html> suggests yes (table at bottom of page) and no (second paragraph).  I haven't tried it, to see which is wrong.
>
> Wouldn't a DVD ISO be too large to fit on a FAT drive?  I thought they
> had a 2 gig file size limit.

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that Windows can format larger.

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[Gianluca Cecchi-2]

I successfully installed some days ago f9 x86_64 this way on a laptop:
- on F9 x86 server I have f9_x86_64.iso file and mount it as a loop device; then I export the mounted path via nfs
- on laptop I install f9_x86_64 via nfs.


Note that in my case I used an usb key as boot device for the laptop.
For doing that I had to use the diskboot.img from f8 and then overwrite kernel and initrd with what provided in boot.iso of f9.
I also had to delete the splash image because the new files didn't fit on the size of the f8 media.

But the installation went fine.

I don't know if you can boot from usb, though....

Gianluca 

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[Tim-163]

Tim:
>> Wouldn't a DVD ISO be too large to fit on a FAT drive?  I thought
>> they had a 2 gig file size limit.

Craig White:
> mkfs can format up to 32 GB vfat volumes last time I checked. I
> believe that Windows can format larger.

That's partition sizing, my comment was about file size limits.  I can't
recall at what point the mickeysoft file system got past that limit.

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[Matthew Saltzman-2]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 03:58 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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).

That was it, thanks!

>
> 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.

It didn't seem as though the installer recognizes LVM volumes.  But the
net install is working fine.

>
> On the machine with dvd drive:
>
> dd if=/dev/dvd of=Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso
>
> then transfer it to the target machine.
>
>
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Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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