I'm setting up a small farm (4 worker nodes on non routing subnet), NAT on master, and using kickstart to boot them up. The nodes boot from a bootnet.img floppy with ks as default, and the master serves the ip address etc using DHCP. The kickstart installation proceeds fine until a long pause during the %post section. In the %post part of my kickstart file I have: mkdir /userdisk mount -t nfs 192.168.1.1:/userdisk /userdisk and then copy various files across. I always get a delay of about 4-6 minutes and error messages on the client (seen by pressing ctrl alt F4) that says <5>portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out <4>lockd-up: make sock failed, error=-5 <5> portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out <4>lockd-up: no pid, 2 users?? Then it procedes to work. If I mount a further directory using NFS I see further error messages and another delay, but again it eventually completes. Do you have any ideas why this is happening and how I can eliminate the delays/errors? Cheers Pete ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Gronbech Unix Systems Manager Tel No. : 01865 273389 Department of Particle Physics Fax No. : 01865 273418 University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK E-mail :p.gronbech1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------
