On 29 Jan 2003, Tony Vickers wrote: > Why is it that everyone is using NFS and not HTTP? It seems to me that > many people have a lot of problems with NFS. Is there something that I'm > missing? > With nfs, you can have anything available to your %post script(s) you want. Getting it to the client with limited knowledge of the environment is fairly easy as you can parse /proc/mounts to discover where the server and base of the install tree are. I switched from NFS to HTTP because of my internal firewall, and I discovered it not so simple getting my customisation scripts to the client. Not impossible, or even especially difficult, but inconveniently different. -- Please, reply only to the list.
