Yup... as that bug that I opened said, NFS over UDP (which is what anaconda uses for installs) was _badly_ broken. Where did you find the e.38 boot images? On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:32:14AM -0500, Jayaraman, Siva wrote: > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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?"
