When I boot the bootnet image for RH7.0 on a machine with no CDROM but with a 3com 509 network card (which works fine) to mount an NFS mount from a server, I get the error "Doesn't appear to have a RedHat installation tree". This procedure worked fine for RH6.0, and I believe also for RH6.2. Please help, I don't want to have to buy a CDROM for this particular machine as it would otherwise never need it. Thank you.
Did you copy both CD's into the same NFS exported directory? This is now required.
I didn't know that it was "now required", I guess it always was, but no one noticed when RH came on just one CD. After receiving your suggestion, I have done this. Now I don't get that error, the installation bombs completely out to a reboot prompt. The error message is: Running anaconda - may take some time to load... 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 3, in ? import sys, os, signal File "/usr/lib/python1.5/os.py", line 1 << a bunch of binary crap here >> ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done unmounting filesystems... /mnt/source /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system Any more ideas? I really don't want to get a CDROM for this system or pull one out of another intact system even to "borrow" it. Please help, thanks.
That looks like a read error occurred when copying the CD's to your NFS exported directory.
I got the same problem. It seems it depens on nfs server. I can't to install from our common server ( BSD propably ) but can from my local server (RH-6.1)
Is the BSD server running NFS 3 or 2?
I don't remember if the CD's of RH7.0 I had were the respin versions or not, so I downloaded them again and re-burned them. Then I installed RH7.0 on the NFS server from the respin CD's, made a new bootnet.img floppy, and now it works. For now, I guess I'm going to assume that I got the non-respin versions to begin with and maybe that's why it didn't work. Everything's Jake now for me. Thanks for the advice about both CD's being copied together to the NFS mounted directory...
No problem - we're going to fix the issue of having to copy both CDs when we get some time.