On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Beamon wrote: > I have a slightly different symptom in my experience. I added a directory > under /mnt and ran a 'mount -t nfs...' command on it, and it hung. Hung for > minutes on end, eventually failing entirely. I'm not sure if I'm missing > some mount options or something. I've read an assortment of popular HOWTO's > and the 7.3 docs cd customization guide. I still don't have this working. > The idea is to add webmin and a couple custom packages, and to go ahead and > 'rpm -Fvh' from a share full of update packages. I can't get it to work, at > all. I'd love to see anyone's %post section who's getting this done. > > -j Remember at the time you're doing this, the system isn't very well configured. Show us the full commands, not just your summaries. Try using IP address, not host names. I've managed to get this info in the past by examining /proc/mounts Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf in the environment (chroot or not) where you're trying to do these things. > (digest subscriber) > > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jason Kohles > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:33 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Mount in %post section of RH73 > > > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:24, Philip Rowlands wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Eric GOUNOT wrote: > > > > >I've took the bootnet.img image to make my floppy installation. If i put > > >my kickstart file on a bootbp/dhcp serveur, my linux's client are well > > >installed and nfs's mount of this server are ok on %post section. > > >I've put the same kickstart file on the same floppy, rename it on ks.cfg > > >and modify the bootproto section to specify an @ip static and boot whith > > >linux ks=floppy. Then the anaconda installation is ok, but in the %post > > >section, at all nfs's mount command, i've got "mount: fs type nfs not > > >supported by kernel" > > > > I once wrote to this list, regarding RH7.3: > > > > OK - the nfs, sunrpc and lockd modules appear to be present only in > > bootnet.img, and not in hdstg1.img, netstg1.img, or stage2.img (which > > all contain various other kernel modules). > > > Which makes absolute sense, if you are kickstarting over NFS, you need > nfs and sunrpc in order to load the other stages from the network, how > will you get them if you don't have network support already? > > > My new theory is that you'll only get the modules loaded by placing the > > kickstart file on an NFS server. > > > No, you can have network support and have your kickstart on the floppy, > but it must be a netboot floppy, even though you are not loading the > ks.cfg over the network, the netboot floppy is the only one that > contains network support (the only one that fits on a floppy anyway). > > -- > Jason Kohles jkohles@xxxxxxxxxx > Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Please, reply only to the list.
