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Re: Question re: installation over network

To: kenneth.leung@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Question re: installation over network
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:52:00 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <AF84AD19B4A8D411B18500508BAF0E0E658F76@SE-EXCUR01-USLJ>
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kenneth.leung@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I am attempting to install SGI's Linux + XFS version 1.0 over our network. I
> have created a boot floppy from the bootnet.img, and booted the new system
> with this floppy. On another RedHat 7.1 system, I have the following ISO
> images mounted and NFS exported.
> 
> /mnt/sgi-disk           (SGI XFS Installation CD)
> /mnt/seawolf-disk1      (RedHat 7.1 CD #1)
> /mnt/seawolf-disk2      (RedHat 7.1 CD #2)
> 
> I provide the name of the NFS server, and the /mnt/sgi-disk mount point so
> that I can install Linux + XFS. The SGI installation begins, and seems to go
> along smoothly. I set up networking, choose a time zone, choose my packages,
> etc. However, when the package installation begins, it automatically fails,
> complaining that it can't find an RPM in the /mnt/CDROM... directory.

The problem is that the installer expects to find everything it needs
under /mnt/sgi-disk (this is standard Red Hat installer behavior).

Pretending for a moment that you don't have the install images mounted
on loopback, what you would need to do is copy all of the RPMS from
seawolf-diskX/RedHat/RPMS into sgi-disk/RedHat/RPMS. 

Since you have everything loopback mounted, you could probably get
creative with symlinks...

What you need to end up with is a top-level dir that contains all of the
sgi disk, plus all of the RPMs from RH disks 1 and 2 under RedHat/RPMS

-Eric

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.

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