I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive. I decided the easy way is to do a network install, and put the DVD image on my file server. However, after trying the install command on both the rescue CD and the boot.iso from the DVD, and exporting the data by both NFS and HTTP, I'm beginning to think that there is a serious omission in the "quick and easy" guide. The install pulls the stage2 file off the server and then says it can't pull the file off the server and invites reconfiguration. I can most definitely pull the file with correct md5sum using either protocol.
Looking at te HTTP access in the httpd/access log, it looks af if the install looks first in the "disk1" directory, then directly in images, but it finds the file just fine.
One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume this is configuration rather than needing a different build.
Is there a simple trick or a pointer to valid instructions? I can install FC8 on the machine just fine, but pulling a pre-release distribution over a slow (4Mbit) network is not what I want other than a proof of concept.
On 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive. I decided the easy way is to do a network install, and put the DVD image on my file server. However, after trying the install command on both the rescue CD and the boot.iso from the DVD, and exporting the data by both NFS and HTTP, I'm beginning to think that there is a serious omission in the "quick and easy" guide. The install pulls the stage2 file off the server and then says it can't pull the file off the server and invites reconfiguration. I can most definitely pull the file with correct md5sum using either protocol.
Looking at te HTTP access in the httpd/access log, it looks af if the install looks first in the "disk1" directory, then directly in images, but it finds the file just fine.
One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume this is configuration rather than needing a different build.
Is there a simple trick or a pointer to valid instructions? I can install FC8 on the machine just fine, but pulling a pre-release distribution over a slow (4Mbit) network is not what I want other than a proof of concept.
-- bill davidsen davidsen@tmr.com CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
For NFS install you only need to provide access to the iso file. The information here, http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall , is a little dated but the concepts should hold.
Kam Leo wrote:
On 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive. I decided the easy way is to do a network install, and put the DVD image on my file server. However, after trying the install command on both the rescue CD and the boot.iso from the DVD, and exporting the data by both NFS and HTTP, I'm beginning to think that there is a serious omission in the "quick and easy" guide. The install pulls the stage2 file off the server and then says it can't pull the file off the server and invites reconfiguration. I can most definitely pull the file with correct md5sum using either protocol.
Looking at te HTTP access in the httpd/access log, it looks af if the install looks first in the "disk1" directory, then directly in images, but it finds the file just fine.
One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume this is configuration rather than needing a different build.
Is there a simple trick or a pointer to valid instructions? I can install FC8 on the machine just fine, but pulling a pre-release distribution over a slow (4Mbit) network is not what I want other than a proof of concept.
-- bill davidsen davidsen@tmr.com CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
For NFS install you only need to provide access to the iso file. The information here, http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall , is a little dated but the concepts should hold.
I had a discussion about the op's question on the Scientific Linux list. My conclusion is that http (and ftp) installs fro dvd images are broken with the advent of yum in anaconda, in FC6, RHEL5 and later.
The problem's with the "media" URLs in the repo, they look to me an over complicated way of ensuring the correct CD is mounted.
The workaround's to unpack (or mount -o loop) the ISO, and create a repo a directory back, in rw space. I've not tried it, but I think it would work.
I got fairly disgusted about then, esp as the README that used to describe the procedure to convert CD images to network install image went missing.
I like http installs, they're more flexible than nfs and I get nice logs recording what files were used. And, if I wish, I can simply configure my (virtual) Apache server to proxy someone's mirror and install from there, caching the bits I actually want.
For my $0.02...
mount the dvd iso to create your own dir on your hard drive.. from here you can either do a simple nfs, or an http install... this assumes you have space on your drive.
i could never get the dvd install to work, using the iso on a hard drive.
peace..
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:37 PM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: Network install FC7
Kam Leo wrote:
On 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive. I decided the easy way is to do a network install, and put the DVD image on my file server. However, after trying the install command on both the rescue CD and the boot.iso from the DVD, and exporting the data by both NFS and HTTP, I'm beginning to think that there is a serious omission in the "quick and easy" guide. The install pulls the stage2 file off the server and then says it can't pull the file off the server and invites reconfiguration. I can most definitely pull the file with correct md5sum using either protocol.
Looking at te HTTP access in the httpd/access log, it looks af if the install looks first in the "disk1" directory, then directly in images, but it finds the file just fine.
One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume this is configuration rather than needing a different build.
Is there a simple trick or a pointer to valid instructions? I can install FC8 on the machine just fine, but pulling a pre-release distribution over a slow (4Mbit) network is not what I want other than a proof of concept.
-- bill davidsen davidsen@tmr.com CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
For NFS install you only need to provide access to the iso file. The information here, http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall , is a little dated but the concepts should hold.
I had a discussion about the op's question on the Scientific Linux list. My conclusion is that http (and ftp) installs fro dvd images are broken with the advent of yum in anaconda, in FC6, RHEL5 and later.
The problem's with the "media" URLs in the repo, they look to me an over complicated way of ensuring the correct CD is mounted.
The workaround's to unpack (or mount -o loop) the ISO, and create a repo a directory back, in rw space. I've not tried it, but I think it would work.
I got fairly disgusted about then, esp as the README that used to describe the procedure to convert CD images to network install image went missing.
I like http installs, they're more flexible than nfs and I get nice logs recording what files were used. And, if I wish, I can simply configure my (virtual) Apache server to proxy someone's mirror and install from there, caching the bits I actually want.
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bruce wrote:
For my $0.02...
mount the dvd iso to create your own dir on your hard drive.. from here you can either do a simple nfs, or an http install... this assumes you have space on your drive.
I think I said that http from the DVD image's content does not work.
john...
are you saying that if you do an iso mount of the drive, copy the items to an nfs share, that you can't then do an nfs/http install....
are you saying that http doesn't work in this case?
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bruce wrote:
For my $0.02...
mount the dvd iso to create your own dir on your hard drive.. from here
you
can either do a simple nfs, or an http install... this assumes you have space on your drive.
I think I said that http from the DVD image's content does not work.
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:10:03 +0900 John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
I think I said that http from the DVD image's content does not work.
I have set up several computers with F7 using a NFS mount from my fileserver and booting the computers with a CD.
Note that I just put the DVD iso image into a directory on my fileserver, then tell the installer where to find it. I don't mount the image or copy the files out of it or anything like that at all.
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:25 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive.
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:09 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:25 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive.
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
---- solution the same either way.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
Craig
bruce wrote:
john...
are you saying that if you do an iso mount of the drive, copy the items to an nfs share, that you can't then do an nfs/http install....
are you saying that http doesn't work in this case?
No, just that the *install* doesn't work. I copied the DVD to a directory available via http *or* nfs, and I was able to pull the stage2 file with either protocol and verify the md5sum to prove the download worked. But the install ISO, either version, failed to work, even though the download appears to have been correct.
Works like a charm to get the data to a machine, but the HTTP access shows that it tried first to go to /disk1/images/stage2.img, then just images/stage2.img. However the download does work, install just down't use it right.
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bruce wrote:
For my $0.02...
mount the dvd iso to create your own dir on your hard drive.. from here
you
can either do a simple nfs, or an http install... this assumes you have space on your drive.
I think I said that http from the DVD image's content does not work.
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Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:25 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive.
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
Sorry, typo. I was trying to install FC7, since I have given that a good test drive, and that fails. However, the FC8 CD (live CD) did do an install just fine, and then updated 400+ packages. But FC8 is a bit untried for my taste, I'd rather not put it on a machine which will be used by a someone who is a reluctant user of computers at all and (b) must approve my capital budget for 2008.
She loves the machine she has, but it's my personal machine, taken away and put under her desk until I give her one she likes.
Tim:
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
Craig White :
solution the same either way.
I'd have thought so, but I was asking in case there was some bug in the newest install routine.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
It occurred to me that you could have some SELinux issues from that sort of thing, if the contexts aren't in place to allow HTTP serving of those files.
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
bruce wrote:
john...
are you saying that if you do an iso mount of the drive, copy the items to an nfs share, that you can't then do an nfs/http install....
yes. Look at the yum metadata. It's got funny URLs that don't get translated well.
are you saying that http doesn't work in this case?
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bruce wrote:
For my $0.02...
mount the dvd iso to create your own dir on your hard drive.. from here
you
can either do a simple nfs, or an http install... this assumes you have space on your drive.
I think I said that http from the DVD image's content does not work.
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Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:09 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:25 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive.
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
solution the same either way.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
Does not work. Try it.
Craig
Tim wrote:
Tim:
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
Craig White :
solution the same either way.
I'd have thought so, but I was asking in case there was some bug in the newest install routine.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
It occurred to me that you could have some SELinux issues from that sort of thing, if the contexts aren't in place to allow HTTP serving of those files.
One can. Fix those by whatever means, and it still does not work.
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
You might have copied and then run createrepo. That should work.
Tim:
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
John Summerfield:
You might have copied and then run createrepo. That should work.
No, I didn't do anything like that. I just can't remember whether I used HTTP or NFS for the last network install. My install booted from the rescue disc to do a network install with the files from a DVD ISO as files on my hard disc, exactly as copied from it. The copying process would have been from a loop mount, but the actual install wasn't.
But anyway, I think that's probably going off on a tangent from the original poster's query about networking installing.
I do recall having quite some difficulty the first time I tried to install. I'd put the install files onto another hard drive, and tried to do an install from a local hard drive, and despite it being mounted and readable, the install routine couldn't make use of it.
I installed another box by removing the DVD drive from yet another computer.
And the last FC7 install was using the rescue CD as the boot drive, and external drive in a USB box with the DVD ISO on it.
Kam Leo wrote:
On 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com wrote:
Is there a simple trick or a pointer to valid instructions? I can install FC8 on the machine just fine, but pulling a pre-release distribution over a slow (4Mbit) network is not what I want other than a proof of concept.
For NFS install you only need to provide access to the iso file. The information here, http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall , is a little dated but the concepts should hold.
The document appears to refer to FC5 and earlier, or maybe FC6, when the install format changed from "many CDs" to "DVD" it looks as if something was lost, like the ability to install from your own local network copy.
Thanks for the link, however.
One thing that may be very important is to make sure the appropriate ports have access - in other words don't forget to open the firewall as necessary.
I have been bitten a few times by forgetting that the firewall can stop things working, not only for nfs but also for wireless cards to work correctly - depending on how you configure your firewall of course!
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:55 +1030, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
Craig White :
solution the same either way.
I'd have thought so, but I was asking in case there was some bug in the newest install routine.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
It occurred to me that you could have some SELinux issues from that sort of thing, if the contexts aren't in place to allow HTTP serving of those files.
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
---- if you serve out as NFS, you don't need to loop mount. You only serve the iso's themselves via NFS
Craig
At 9:25 PM -0400 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen wrote: ...
One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume this is configuration rather than needing a different build.
...
AMD K7 is i686.
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:32 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:09 +1030, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:25 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I want to install FC8 on a machine without a DVD, but with a CD drive.
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
solution the same either way.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
---- yeah, you can drop the /disc1 sorry - was thinking about stage1.5 boot because I do that around here
Craig
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 05:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
if you serve out as NFS, you don't need to loop mount. You only serve the iso's themselves via NFS
I've done that in the past, but found installs ran much quicker from a directory tree than one large ISO file. Of course it takes a fair amount of time to copy all the files out somewhere, but if you were doing multiple installs, it was worth doing that once.
Tim wrote:
Tim:
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
John Summerfield:
You might have copied and then run createrepo. That should work.
No, I didn't do anything like that. I just can't remember whether I used HTTP or NFS for the last network install. My install booted from the rescue disc to do a network install with the files from a DVD ISO as files on my hard disc, exactly as copied from it. The copying process would have been from a loop mount, but the actual install wasn't.
But anyway, I think that's probably going off on a tangent from the original poster's query about networking installing.
I do recall having quite some difficulty the first time I tried to install. I'd put the install files onto another hard drive, and tried to do an install from a local hard drive, and despite it being mounted and readable, the install routine couldn't make use of it.
I installed another box by removing the DVD drive from yet another computer.
And the last FC7 install was using the rescue CD as the boot drive, and external drive in a USB box with the DVD ISO on it.
The reason I started this thread was that the box I have has GigE and only USB-1.0, so installing from network would be vastly faster. I'm still looking for a good solution, but after the initial install I did change the "keep cache" setting for yum.conf, hopefully I can copy the cache to the new machine before updating and save some time there.
Someone suggested that there could be a singe /var/cache/yum instance, and that it could be mounted r/w via NFS and used. Does anyone know if that really works? I will have a fair number of boxes with fast net and no DVD by the end of the year.
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:55 +1030, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
Craig White :
solution the same either way.
I'd have thought so, but I was asking in case there was some bug in the newest install routine.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
It occurred to me that you could have some SELinux issues from that sort of thing, if the contexts aren't in place to allow HTTP serving of those files.
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
if you serve out as NFS, you don't need to loop mount. You only serve the iso's themselves via NFS
I think your terms "iso's" is the key, I used to export the tree with the contents of the CD releases of everything up to FC5, possible FC6, those distributions which came on CD. But now that the releases are DVD-only, the installer can't seem to cope with the exported single ISO image. Feel free to prove me wrong, if you can get a box to start install past the point where it tries to get "stage2.img" you will be past where I got using http or nfs export.
Note that I was able to download the file with another machine using either protocol, and verified the success with an MD5sum to be sure it worked. The problem is with the install code, and I note that the access.log of the http server shows that it is looking for things in a "disk1/" directory, indicating the the install was moved from CD to DVD, but the install script doesn't seem to have been.
Again, feel free to point out some mistake I'm making, I've done a *bunch* of machine with older distributions, and had no problem. And I tried both the boot.iso from the DVD and the Live-CD install, with stoppage at exactly the same point.
Tony Nelson wrote:
At 9:25 PM -0400 11/1/07, Bill Davidsen wrote: ...
One possible problem, this is an Athlon processor (K7) and I can find distributions for i686, x86_64, and pcc, but none for i386 (the RPMs say i686 in the 386 directory), or for Athlon. Because FC8 works, I assume this is configuration rather than needing a different build.
...
AMD K7 is i686.
No. See "man gcc" for the athlon and i686 targets. Or the kernel "make menuconfig" list of processors types. The i686 build may well work on athlon, but since I have never had this problem before, I thought it was worth mentioning.
In any case, the problem seems generic after FC6.
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 15:01 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:55 +1030, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Which is it, FC 7 or 8? The subject description is different from the message, and which one you're actually doing might be able to pinpoint the problem.
Craig White :
solution the same either way.
I'd have thought so, but I was asking in case there was some bug in the newest install routine.
copy iso to system that has httpd running, loop mount in /var/www/html path somewhere...good to go.
mkdir /var/www/html/FC8 mount -t iso /tmp/F-8-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/FC8
linux method=http://MY_WEB_SERVER/FC8/disc1
It occurred to me that you could have some SELinux issues from that sort of thing, if the contexts aren't in place to allow HTTP serving of those files.
I did a network install of FC7 ages ago, but I can't recall what protocol I used. Whichever technique it was, I would have copied the files to a directory, I didn't use a loop mount, or serve out the ISO.
if you serve out as NFS, you don't need to loop mount. You only serve the iso's themselves via NFS
I think your terms "iso's" is the key, I used to export the tree with the contents of the CD releases of everything up to FC5, possible FC6, those distributions which came on CD. But now that the releases are DVD-only, the installer can't seem to cope with the exported single ISO image. Feel free to prove me wrong, if you can get a box to start install past the point where it tries to get "stage2.img" you will be past where I got using http or nfs export.
Note that I was able to download the file with another machine using either protocol, and verified the success with an MD5sum to be sure it worked. The problem is with the install code, and I note that the access.log of the http server shows that it is looking for things in a "disk1/" directory, indicating the the install was moved from CD to DVD, but the install script doesn't seem to have been.
Again, feel free to point out some mistake I'm making, I've done a *bunch* of machine with older distributions, and had no problem. And I tried both the boot.iso from the DVD and the Live-CD install, with stoppage at exactly the same point.
---- I wish that I could test out F7/F8 but I can see that it won't be possible for me to do that.
I did install K12LTSP using that methodology but that was FC-6 and cd based iso's
I am really geared up to install via http here as I run mrepo, and have repository installation setups for fc6-i386, fc7-i386, fc7-x86_64, fc7-ppc and am now downloading the DVD iso's for F8
In as much as I install - latest Dell Optiplex 320 with F7-x86_64 boot.iso via http...
linux install \ method=http://my_mrepo_server/mrepo/fc7-x86_64/disc1 \ ks=http://my_http_server/auto.config/ks-fc7-x86_64.cfg
I would expect that the NFS install should work as well but I simply can't test it out until well into next week as my primary concern is getting the various f8 local repository mirrors all functional and installs/updates rockin.
Craig
Craig White wrote:
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linux install \ method=http://my_mrepo_server/mrepo/fc7-x86_64/disc1 \ ks=http://my_http_server/auto.config/ks-fc7-x86_64.cfg
I would expect that the NFS install should work as well but I simply can't test it out until well into next week as my primary concern is getting the various f8 local repository mirrors all functional and installs/updates rockin.
I have successfully installed f7 several times using pxeboot and nfs.
The nfs server contains the F-7-i386-DVD.iso and a kickstart file, ks.cfg.
I network boot the target machine and let it rip. Takes about 5 minutes to do a Base install onto a low end white box. The iso is not mounted, it is just present within an nfs exported directory.
Here is the boot stanza from the tftp server:
LABEL f7 kickstart MENU LABEL Install f7 w/ ^kickstart KERNEL images/vmlinuz vga=0x317 APPEND ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=images/initrd.img network ks=nfs:nfs:/exports/f7/ks.cfg
Works great!
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