On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Michael Joy wrote:

> I think a point should be made, that crc checksumming the ISO's for 
> installing off an nfs mount is redundant. The RPM's are all 
> checksummed by the anaconda installer automatically during 
> installation.

I can certainly confirm that.  Some time back we had a network switch 
which was occasionally corrupting data, and the first we knew about it 
was that redhat installations were failing, with an RPM checksum error 
being reported.

(After a firmware upgrade of the switch, the problem went away, and we 
haven't seen it again since.)

Nevertheless, the original poster is right that the RH manual *does* 
document the possibility to install from ISO images read via NFS: at
the foot of this page
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-begininstall-nfs.html

Most of the responses seem to have been entirely tangential to this 
point, suggesting all kinds of reasons not to want to do that, rather 
than giving any kind of explanation why this documented method is not 
working for SL.

best regards