Alright, Has anyone encountered problems with RPC timeouts and other NFS mount failures when performing RH Kickstart installs? If so, how did you resolve those mount failures? Details: I have a 7.1 laptop that I am attempting to make into a portable kickstart server. All the requisite software is installed in working (I have used this configuration on a 6.2 server to great effect). atftp, PXElinux, ISC DHCP 2.0pl5. I can provide snippets of the config files if required. The problem is that the NFS based installation falls down when trying to find the Kickstart config file via NFS. Doing a local NFS mount works fine (ie. "mount -t nfs localhost:/kickstart /mnt"). But the network based mounts fall flat. I have turned off all the firewalls completely (ie. "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop" and "/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop"). Are there some NFS access controls I'm missing somewhere? All I see logged in /var/log/messages during one of these failed mount events is a time out message. Nothing useful. While we're on the subject of useful, is there someway to pull off an FTP install? I tried setting up Kickstart to do FTP using ftp:ftp (username:password) but it didn't like that when it came time to actually find the install image. I would just as soon use FTP installs and say to hell with this NFS garbage but I'm trying to start with (what I thought were) known quantities. TIA! Claude Johnson Network Scientist Avamar Technologies 949.743.5145 Vox 949.743.5190 Fax www.avamar.com
