Ugh. Not what I wanted to hear (because it means more work for me and a probable bottomless pit). Unfortunately I have tried mounting this from directory on a number of different systems with no problems. Logs show nothing. Anyone know if there a way to get the NFS portion of kickstart (or the install itself) to be a little more verbose on what it doesn't like about its mount attempt? - Matt Keith McPherson wrote: > > We've always used a Solaris server to do our kickstarts (redhat 5.2 thru > 7.0, Solaris 2.6 & 2.7), so it does work. FWIW, I'd guess the NFS server > is the problem, so I'd start with the log files on the Solaris > server... and try mounting that dir on another server that's on the same > network to make sure it can be mounted. > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote: > > > Has anyone seen an issue with RedHat not being able to do a kickstart > > from a Solaris (5.6) NFS server? Specifically we're booting from floppy > > with a "ks.cfg" file on the floppy itself that points to NFS mount the > > RedHat distribution from our Solaris fileserver. If we use the exact > > same disk and modify it to take the distribution from an NFS mount of a > > Linux box it works fine. > > > > The symptom when it fails is that it boots and then instead of > > completing the kickstart it falls to the standard set of input requests > > with CTRL-ALT-F1 showing the last attempted thing was the NFS mount of > > the distribution. The NFS mount attempt through a "snoop" appears to be > > working properly though: > > > > dhcp33-vlan1.coat.com -> foo.coat.com MOUNT3 C Mount > > /export/auto/Linux_i86/7.0/redhat/7.0 > > foo.coat.com -> dhcp33-vlan1.coat.com MOUNT3 R Mount OK FH=43E1 > > Auth=unix > > > > but I suspect the boot image doesn't like something about the reply > > (don't know). It might be a something it doesn't like about the portmap > > response as well since it seems to enumerate registered RPCs during the > > mount request. V3 NFS is supported on this server. RedHat 6.2 has no > > problem kickstarting from the same server and filesystem. RedHat 7.0 > > systems don't seem have a problem mounting the directory after being > > installed. I don't think it's a problem on the server side. > > > > If we follow the manual prompts and use the same mount point it *also* > > fails (says cannot mount the directory) so it's more of a generic > > install issue than specific to kickstart (but I don't have a better > > place to send this). > > > > Thanks, > > > > - Matt > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Matt Fahrner 2 South Park St. > > Manager of Networking Willis House > > Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lebanon, N.H. 03766 > > TEL: (603) 448-4100 xt 5150 USA > > FAX: (603) 443-6190 Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Fahrner 2 South Park St. Manager of Networking Willis House Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lebanon, N.H. 03766 TEL: (603) 448-4100 xt 5150 USA FAX: (603) 443-6190 Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------
