Bug 141046 - NFS Install of SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha4-CD{1-5}.iso
Summary: NFS Install of SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha4-CD{1-5}.iso
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 4
Hardware: i386 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Jiri Srain
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-12-26 20:58 UTC by W Agtail
Modified: 2006-04-06 14:37 UTC (History)
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Description W Agtail 2005-12-26 20:58:29 UTC 
Hi

Would it be possible to amend the install process, so that when peformming a NFS installation, one could just point the NFS process to the dir that contains the .iso images?

This would save having to copy the contents of the .iso images to dir.

I'm actually trying to install via PXE/DHCP/TFTP/NFS with something like this in my pxelinux.cfg/01-mac-address
../pxelinux.cfg/01-00-11-22-ab-cd-ef
default suse10.1-alpha4-i386

# default
label suse10.1-alpha4-i386
kernel suse10.1-alpha4-i386/linux
append initrd=suse10.1-alpha4-i386/initrd ramdisk_size=65536 netdevice=eth0 install=nfs://192.168.0.5/scratch/ISOs/Linux/SuSE/i386

Many Thanks
W Agtail
Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2005-12-27 12:18:36 UTC 
What about   mount -o loop   as a (temporarily?) solution?

However, I second that installing directly from ISOs would be an enhancement.

BTW: This bug should be in product "SUSE Linux 10.1", not openSUSE (which is for the wiki only at the moment). I'll adjust it ;-)
Comment 2 Ladislav Slezák 2006-01-03 08:53:34 UTC 
AFAIK ISO over NFS should be supported in the future.
Comment 3 Christoph Thiel 2006-04-06 14:37:35 UTC 
Loopback-mounted ISOs via NFS are supported in 10.1, please retry with 10.1 >= beta9.