[CentOS] Netinstall & NFS using local server.

Tue Jan 4 20:48:26 UTC 2011
Lisandro Grullon <lgrullon at CityTech.Cuny.Edu>

I tried both way, I mounted the ISO to /test then copy its full content to the root of my export and even left the ISO there just in case. I still see the error "That directory does not seem to contain a CentOS installation tree", do I have to dd the ISO I just did a simple cp -rf * 

>>> Rudi Ahlers  01/04/11 3:31 PM >>>
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Lisandro Grullon
 wrote:
> Dear CentOS community,
> I have install centos via CD, DVD and Directly off the net via http and FTP.
> Now I want to do a NFS install from a local server and a client. Both,
> client and server are in the same vlan 10.14.10.0/255.255.255.0.
>
> The server has a static 10.14.10.15 address and the client gets its own
> address via DHCP. I download the DVD image from one of the mirrors and
> placed it under /centos-media/centosdvd32/DVD/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso
> which is a dedicated partition on the server to hold all images. After that
> I exported the usual entries under /etc/exports and reloaded NFS using
> /sbin/service nfs reload. This is what my exports file looks like:
>
> [root at zeus DVD]# cat /etc/exports
> /centos-media/centosdvd64 10.14.10.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync,all_squash)
> /centos-media/centosdvd32/DVD 10.14.10.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync,all_squash)
>
> After doing so, I also modified the entries under IPtables to allow traffic
> in 111 and 2049 at the UDP/TCP level and restarted the service as shown
> bellow.
>
> [root at zeus DVD]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables
> # Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
> # Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
> *filter
> :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
> :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
> -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
> -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j
> ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport
> 2049 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport
> 111 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport
> 2049 -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 10.14.10.0/24 -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport
> 111 -j ACCEPT
> COMMIT
>
> [root at zeus DVD]# /sbin/service iptables restart
>
> When I try loading the net-install disc from the client i get to the area
> where I specify the Ip of the server and the NFS path in the server, hitting
> enter returns "That directory does not seem to contain CentOS installation
> tree", I triple check the ISO and I know its there with all appropriate
> permissions. Can someone tell me what am I missing? I have spend all day
> trying to get NFS working in the local vlan, i know that all ports are open
> within the vlan at the routers level. Any clues?
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________



Did you actually mount the ISO file, to expose the directory structure
to the netinstall script? I don't think it can read ISO's directly,
but I could be wrong?




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