I have seen this too with 7.1 kickstart, it worked fine with 6.2. I ended up avoiding the need to NFS mount during the %post part by moving the stuff I usually mounted to the same tree as the RH distro and accessing it after a nochroot like this: %post --nochroot cp /mnt/source/qc-rpm/update_kernel.sh /mnt/sysimage/tmp ... and then doing stuff in the regular chrooted environment afterwards: %post /tmp/update_kernel.sh ... --patty On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Claude Johnson wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:51:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Claude Johnson <cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: NFS problems doing PXE installs > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
