Joe, (apologies if this has already been suggested or discounted...) For what it's worth, we initially migrated away from an NFS-based install back in the RedHat 7.2/AS 2.1 days when the NFS drivers took up too much space on the boot floppy and we needed to add other NIC drivers. We have had success ever since using the http install method. It would be a fairly simple change in the ks.cfg file to change the "nfs --server a.b.c.d --dir /x/y/z" line to a "url --url http://server/install_dir " line, with slightly more involved work in the postinstall if you need to convert NFS-accessed data to "wget"-accessed data. Gordon Keegan -----Original Message----- From: Joe_Wulf [mailto:Joe_Wulf@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:34 AM To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart' Subject: RE: More on NFS problem John, Thank you. I probably could dig into initrd.img hacking, but the subsequent rounds of testing to handle scenarios of employment don't seem to make it worth doing when compared with my targets/goals/objectives. My customer tends to look for hardware and operating systems that work right out of the box, with the end-implementation being the holy-rolled magic bean. You'd mentioned about an old post, and from that, its "... something that should not occur now". I agree. I would have thought these versions of the OS, being years later, would have had such problems nuked. And again, rolling up many initrd images simply didn't seem like a practical application of time. Would still like to know if anyone is using a MacPro, with Windoze and VMware installed to kickstart build systems. I'd asked about migrating my kickstart server to Fedora 8 for a couple of reasons. I've heard that it might actually be more stable and reliable (like for avoiding the kinds of problems I have) by using an older OS for the kickstart'er. So along those lines I'd expected to hear from folks who've experience and/or an opinion on that, based on their experiences in the past. Further, I wanted to save the time installing Fedora 8 if someone's experience told them it would be a waste of time. Sure, I can try it, and see what I get. And with the exhaustion of other viable things to test/try, might be worth it. I think I got everything. R, -Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET) Senior IA Engineer ProSync Technology Group, LLC www.prosync.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 01:15 To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: More on NFS problem Joe_Wulf wrote: > John, > > I apologize, John, since my bluntness has offended you. > I accept all that you say, and I now understand your frustration. Now, if you read through my reply and respond to each point in turn, you can address the other points I raised. Quite possibly I won't find your solution, but perhaps with some more, to the point, responses someone will get you there. It might be that you need to do something to help sort out the problem that won't be acceptable as a final solution, but if it's plausible, it's worth trying. Hacking on an initrd is no big deal, these days it can be a CPIO archive, compressed (with gzip) or not. btw Perhaps you should ask on which ever list applies to your distro? Lots of folk there use kickstart too. <snip> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
