Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
For some time now I have not been able to get the Rawhide boot.iso
tp install with the repo=nfs:server:path trick.
boot.iso contains files and such that will allow you to boot a system
and start the installer, but it does NOT contain the installable image.
You don't install from boot.iso.
Now, as far as an FTP or NFS install, the installer doesn't want an iso
file, it wants the files from the ISO image as a file system.You'd
need to mount the DVD ISO image at some point in the NFS server's
filesystem, export that mountpoint via NFS, and use THAT share as the
target:
# mkdir /mnt/rawhide
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/dvd.iso /mnt/rawhide
--EITHER--
# (edit /etc/exports to export /mnt/rawhide)
# exportfs -r
--OR--
# exportfs -o ro *:/mnt/rawhide
Then aim the client machine at "nfs:nfserver.domain.com:/mnt/rawhide"
So I tried setting up
pxeboot using the information on the Fedora web site. This fails
with the client BIOS reporting "File Not Found". Any ideas
what the problem is?
PXE boots also can't decipher an ISO image...it wants a kernel. In this
case, you DO want to use boot.iso, but you still need to mount the ISO
image on the PXE server so the files IN the ISO image are visible.
#
# DHCP Server Configuration file.
# see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample
# see 'man 5 dhcpd.conf'
#
allow booting;
allow bootp;
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
authoritative;
# --- default gateway
option routers 192.168.1.13;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.108 192.168.1.167;
next-server 192.168.1.13;
filename "pxelinux.0";
option nis-domain "omen.com";
option domain-name "omen.com";
option domain-name-servers 70.89.176.170;
option time-offset -28800; # Pacific Standard Time
option ntp-servers 192.168.1.1;
# --- Selects point-to-point node (default is hybrid). Don't change this
unless
# -- you understand Netbios very well
option netbios-node-type 2;
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;
}
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-09 08:16 tftpboot
total 19380
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-09 08:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 4096 2008-09-09 07:03 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17187370 2008-09-09 07:05 initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14716 2008-02-25 10:45 pxelinux.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113 2008-09-09 07:07 pxelinux.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2592032 2008-09-09 07:05 vmlinuz
DEFAULT pxeboot
TIMEOUT 50
LABEL pxeboot
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.img
ONERROR LOCALBOOT 0
It is important to note that the only installation method that groks
an ISO image AS an ISO image is either a "install from DVD/CD" or
"install from hard disk". In those cases you DO hand it the path to
an ISO image file.
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