that was it! I moved to a e.38 boot image and it worked perfectly as it should. Thanks! Siva Jayaraman siva.jayaraman@xxxxxxxxxxxx 770.283.2559 > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joshua Jensen > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:14 PM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Subject: Re: RHEL AS-2.1 U3 extremely slow - nfs issue? > > > Could it be this? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112766 > > Joshua > > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:43:17AM -0500, Jayaraman, Siva wrote: > > > > hello all, > > > > We are in the process of moving to more recent > distributions of RH viz RHEL > > AS-2.1 Update3 & RH AS-3.0. > > > > We have kickstart infrastructure in place deploying RH7.2 > and RH AS-2.1 > > distributions. > > The kickstarts are done over NFS. > > > > The new distributions were added to the NFS server (which > is the same as the > > DHCP server). > > But the new kickstarts (AS-2.1-U3 & AS-3.0) take an > extremely long time now. > > > > The older kickstarts install around 800M of pkgs in about 3 > minutes, whereas > > now the newer kickstarts take around 50 minutes to install > 650M of packages. > > > > I checked the network connection and it is always 100Mbps > Full Duplex for > > both cases. > > The only difference I notice is that I get this message on > one of the > > virtual consoles - > > "nfs: mount version older than kernel" > > > > The older kickstarts mount the nfs directory as nfs v2 > whereas the newer > > kickstarts mount the directory as v3. > > Could this be the source of my problem? > > > > The NFS server is a RH7.2 box capable of doing both v2 & v3. > > > > If anyone has suggestions on how to debug/correct this > problem, I would > > highly appreciate it. > > > > thanks! > > Siva Jayaraman > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > -- > Joshua Jensen <jjensen@xxxxxxxxx> > Work: 919 392 1488 Mobile: 919 454 9679 Fax: 919 392 7377 > Pager: 866 264 2691 Epage: jjensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > IBM Linux Architect - RHCE, RHCT, etc > "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them > out of meat?" > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
