Bug 76078
| Summary: | NFS install option ignores "discX" convention | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael Richardson <mcr> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-10-16 16:54:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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That's why we support just using the ISOs remotely for NFS. Handling loopback mounted ISOs on the server-side for NFS is much less convenient due to the way NFS under Linux works. I don't see how it matters. Three mounts, as I show, does the trick. If there is a better way, I would love to hear it. cf the documentation please. It is not obvious to me, and I've been doing network installs of OSes since SunOS 3. |
Description of Problem: The RPMS merging is annoying for a network install. Much easier if one can just loopback mount the CDs and NFS export them. Certainly easier if you have three CDroms, or a jukebox for them.! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Do an NFS install from a server setup like: cassidy-[/distros/redhat/8.0] mcr 1161 %ls -lL total 1973822 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 6144 Sep 10 16:34 disc1/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Sep 10 16:34 disc2/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Sep 10 16:56 disc3/ -rw-r--r-- 1 mcr mcr 675315712 Oct 10 14:31 psyche-i386-disc1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mcr mcr 666271744 Oct 9 16:46 psyche-i386-disc2.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mcr mcr 677609472 Oct 9 18:08 psyche-i386-disc3.iso cassidy-[/distros/redhat/8.0] mcr 1163 %df | grep distros /distros/redhat/7.2/enigma-i386-disc1.iso 662072 662072 0 100% /distros/redhat/7.2/disc 1 /distros/redhat/7.2/enigma-i386-disc2.iso 653740 653740 0 100% /distros/redhat/7.2/disc 2 /distros/redhat/8.0/psyche-i386-disc2.iso 650656 650656 0 100% /distros/redhat/8.0/disc 2 /distros/redhat/8.0/psyche-i386-disc1.iso 659488 659488 0 100% /distros/redhat/8.0/disc 1 /distros/redhat/8.0/psyche-i386-disc3.iso 661728 661728 0 100% /distros/redhat/8.0/disc 3 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: It complains that /distros/redhat/8.0/ does not have a valid distribution. Expected Results: I expect it to see that there are disc1/disc2/disc3 in that dir, and then do three more NFS mounts for them. (You have to do the NFS mounts, because NFS does not cross mount points on the host). It would be nice if this worked for HTTP and FTP installs as well. Additional Information: The workaround is to copy the RedHat/base/ dir from disc1 up one level, and build a symlink tree from Redhat/RPMS/* to disc?/RPMS/*, and then do the mounts manually. cassidy-[/distros/redhat/8.0] mcr 1216 %ls -l RedHat/RPMS/zsh-4.0.4-8.i386.rpm lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcr mcr 44 Oct 16 12:32 RedHat/RPMS/zsh-4.0.4-8.i386.rpm -> ../../disc3/RedHat/RPMS/zsh-4.0.4-8.i386.rpm cassidy-[/distros/redhat/8.0] mcr 1217 %cat domounts #!/bin/sh mount cassidy:/distros/redhat/8.0/disc1 /mnt/source/disc1 mount cassidy:/distros/redhat/8.0/disc2 /mnt/source/disc2 mount cassidy:/distros/redhat/8.0/disc3 /mnt/source/disc3 For mirrors, it would be convenient if they could just suck the ISO images, loopback mount them, and be done. That would halve their disk space.