On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:26 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> Simon Andrews wrote: > > >>> Someone else reported that you can bypass the problem by specifying your > >>> nfs directory in the initial boot options: > >>> > >>> method=nfsiso:example.com:/some/dir/ > >>> > >>> This worked for me. > >> I've reported this as a bug BZ#473251 > > > > I have tried the method=nfsiso:example.com:/some/dir/ when using the > > main DVD to boot from - that failed. > > That's odd - I've done this (using the netinstall image rather than the > install DVD) on a few machines now and it's worked every time. I'd be > surprised if the install DVD acted differently to the netinstall CD in > this regard. > > How does it fail when you try this? Is it still looking for an /images/ > directory? Yes it comes up and asks again for the NFS server and directory and then says it has been looking for images dir. I would have expected it not to ask again and take the info from the command line > > > I have successfully tried the method suggested by > > Alex Viskovatoff in the other thread > > Glad you managed to get it working somehow. > > > I think it probably only needs the documentation updating > > to say put the install.img file in an images subdirectory for an NFS > > install > > I disagree. You shouldn't need to do this - and it make it a right pain > if (as I have) you have an i386 and and x86_64 iso in the same nfs > directory. Anaconda can handle this situation and I suspect that not > being able to do this through the askmethod route will turn out to be a > simple bug. > > Simon. > OK point taken ! Just that it won't happen until F11 John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
