Re: [suse-sles-e] Network Install via NFS

From: Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke_at_gwdg.de)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 23:36:27 CEST


Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 23:36:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609062332000.22954@gwdu05.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Network Install via NFS

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 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.

Where is this problem?
I have copied successfully an 8.5 GB ISO file over NFS (kernel-nfsd),
already with SUSE-9.3 NFS server.

Cheers -e

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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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