Thanks a lot that did the trick. "using mount -o ro,nolock. There is no lockd running during the installation process." Cheers Pete ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Gronbech Unix Systems Manager Tel No. : 01865 273389 Department of Particle Physics Fax No. : 01865 273418 University of Oxford, http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~gronbech Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK E-mail : p.gronbech1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Florian Festi [mailto:festifn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 10 December 2002 12:04 To: 'kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Re: NFS delays during %post section of network kickstart install > 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. Try using mount -o ro,nolock. There is no lockd running during the installation process. cu Florian Festi _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
