On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:35 +0100, Howard Wilkinson wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:25 +0100, Howard Wilkinson wrote: > > > Is it possible to do an NFS4 base install using kickstart. I can see > > > how to specify the other opts but will kickstart honor a fstype=nfs4 > > > or similar switch? > > > > Not at the moment -- nfs4 requires a fair bit of different code to get > > the mount to work. There's a feature request filed for it in bugzilla, > > but it's fairly low priority. It shouldn't be that hard, though, if > > someone wanted to provide a patch. Basically you'd just need to add > > support for nfs4 to the mounting code in isys/imount.c > > I would be willing to have a go at producing such a patch, how would > you want it specified in the kickstart file? Would you want the nfs > line to include fstype=nfs[234] as a valid option or would you want > nfs4 as a new keyword? Having nfs4 as a separate keyword is more inline with how things actually work with mount itself. But I don't really care that much -- whichever approach is easier/cleaner is probably the best one for this case Jeremy
