Danial Howard wrote:
I use my local mirror all the time for NFS and HTTP network installs. I'm certain that it's a valid installation source.
Here's what I use for NFS installs:
server name: rhinstall
directory: /exports/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386
Is everything in that path the same filesystem? I tried with local files and loopback mounted *.iso files and worked. But over NFS, only the upper directorty was exported, not the loopback mounts for each disk.
You cannot use the --isodir option over NFS. The runtime kernel doesn't support loopback over the network like the install kernel does.
redhat-config-packages --tree=/mnt/8.0/en/os/i386
That worked for local files.
Executing the above, I still get the error message "Installation Tree Not Found. The path /mnt/8.0/en/os/i386 does not look like a valid
Is the .diskinfo file in there? Can you post it's contents?
installation source." Similar error message for the second with the / at the end.
That's what I got when exporting a symlink tree to the loop mounted iso files. I don't enough free space for the files and the iso's. :( -Thomas
