But my problem is that I can't _even_ get to the post install. In fact, the install *never* starts because the client won't find the NFS export correctly. So, how is your Kickstart server's NFS configured? I can't get to the post install because the NFS mounts required to find ks.cfg are falling down. Feel free to send information in private. On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Patty OReilly wrote: [*]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 [*]> [*] [*] [*] [*]_______________________________________________ [*]Kickstart-list mailing list [*]Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx [*]https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list [*] Claude Johnson Network Scientist Avamar Technologies 949.743.5145 Vox 949.743.5190 Fax www.avamar.com
