[oclug] RH7 NFS install (Need a favour) (fwd)

[Chris Nolan]

Not much help, but just so you know you're not alone.  I tried this last
year with 6.1 of RedHat and got the same message.  Didn't figure it out,
just ended up moving the CD drive over to the box I was trying to setup.

Chris Nolan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Trojanowski [mailto:bart at nexus.carleton.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 14:56
> To: oclug mailing list
> Cc: Steven Lusk
> Subject: [oclug] RH7 NFS install (Need a favour) (fwd)
> 
> 
> 
> [ please leave Steve CC'ed on this message if you reply ]
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> 	Could you post this to OCLUG for me?
> 
> 
> 	I need to know if anyone has attempted an NFS install of RedHat,
> preferably v7.
> 
> 	I'm 100% certain that the server is running (i can 
> mount from a 3rd
> machine).  The client (machine i intend to install) is 
> connecting, but i
> get the error message "That directory does not seem to 
> contain a Red Hat
> installation tree." (on the client)
> 
> 	What, if anything, does the installer use as a test?  
> What do i have to
> do to get it to detect this as an image?  If i have to enter something
> in /etc/hosts, what is the default host/domain that RedHat uses while
> installing (before it gets set manually)?
> 
> 	I read the README, but all it says is to copy both CD's 
> to your hard
> drive.  I've done that, it gives me the same error.
> 	With exactly the same image, the FTP installer works 
> (but it requires
> 20MB of ram, which this client doesn't have), and is MUCH slower.
> 
> 
> 
> 	TIA
> 
> 	steve
> 
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