On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Martin Gauthier wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me the step by step procedure to install RedHat Linux
> > 5.2/6.1/6.2 via NFS. Any help would be highly appreciable.
>
> I've never tried a NFS install not through PXE. However I believe you
> have to make a boot disk using the "bootnet.img" image instead of the
> "boot.img" image. When booting with that disk you will be asked for a
> type of installation. Simply select the NFS one. Note that you have to
> have NFS server on the network.
>
I only did it once, and it worked just fine. You need to set up the other
box to run the NFS server, of course, and make sure that the permissions
are set correctly in the /etc/exports file. You can either mount the
CD-ROM and then share the /mnt/cdrom partition via NFS or just copy all
the contents onto the hard drive.
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