On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Lisandro Grullon <lgrullon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear CentOS community, > I have install centos via CD, DVD and Directly off the net via http and FTP. > Now I want to do a NFS install from a local server and a client. Both, > client and server are in the same vlan 10.14.10.0/255.255.255.0. > > The server has a static 10.14.10.15 address and the client gets its own > address via DHCP. I download the DVD image from one of the mirrors and > placed it under /centos-media/centosdvd32/DVD/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso > which is a dedicated partition on the server to hold all images. After that > I exported the usual entries under /etc/exports and reloaded NFS using > /sbin/service nfs reload. This is what my exports file looks like: > > [root@zeus DVD]# cat /etc/exports > /centos-media/centosdvd64 10.14.10.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync,all_squash) > /centos-media/centosdvd32/DVD 10.14.10.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync,all_squash) > > After doing so, I also modified the entries under IPtables to allow traffic > in 111 and 2049 at the UDP/TCP level and restarted the service as shown > bellow. > > [root@zeus DVD]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables > # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel > # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. > *filter > :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] > -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT > -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j > ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport > 2049 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport > 111 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport > 2049 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport > 111 -j ACCEPT > COMMIT > > [root@zeus DVD]# /sbin/service iptables restart > > When I try loading the net-install disc from the client i get to the area > where I specify the Ip of the server and the NFS path in the server, hitting > enter returns "That directory does not seem to contain CentOS installation > tree", I triple check the ISO and I know its there with all appropriate > permissions. Can someone tell me what am I missing? I have spend all day > trying to get NFS working in the local vlan, i know that all ports are open > within the vlan at the routers level. Any clues? > > > > _______________________________________________ Did you actually mount the ISO file, to expose the directory structure to the netinstall script? I don't think it can read ISO's directly, but I could be wrong? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos