From: Paul Wolstenholme (WolstenP_at_Vancouver.cbc.ca)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 23:02:15 CEST
Message-Id: <s4feff1f.029@GWTOR-OUT1.CBC.CA> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:02:15 -0400 From: "Paul Wolstenholme" <WolstenP@Vancouver.cbc.ca> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Network Install via NFS
I loop mounted the ISO then exported the mount point.
/Paul
>>> Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> 09/06/06 1:49 PM >>>
On Wed, Sep 06, Paul Wolstenholme wrote:
> I'm mucking around trying to mount the DVD iso and sharing it via
NFS
> for installations. Is this possible? It seems to work partially for
> me.
> Since my test server has no DVD I boot from CD1. The nfs share seems
> to
> mount okay during the install but it fails when I try to select
> packages. There is a an error message "no catalogue..." and there
are
> no
> packages listed.
Do you loop-mount the ISO and export that, or do you export the
iso image and mounts that? (Both works with SLES10).
If you export the DVD ISO image with NFS you have a problem: the
image is too big. And it this case you get this error message.
Thorsten
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