Re: More on NFS problem

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

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.

> Anyone else have thoughts on this?
>
>
> R,
> -Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
>  Senior IA Engineer
>  ProSync Technology Group, LLC
>  www.prosync.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of John Summerfield
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 23:17
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: More on NFS problem
>
> Joe_Wulf wrote:
> > Stowe,
> >
> > Thank you for identifying that post.  I find it radical to have to go to all
> the
> > trouble of rebuilding an initrd image for one OS, much less for all the ones I
> > have to work with, just to get it to boot past an NFS problem.
>
> Stowe was trying to help you; I find the tone of your response and the 
> fact you've addressed him personally offensive.
>
> > I'm still struggling with this.  It just floors me that I can totally kickstart
> a
> > VM to completion on one system, simply register the MAC address in the
> kickstart
> > server to foster a build on the other physical system (that is the ONLY change)
> > and it NEVER builds.
>
> Stowe says "it sounds something like...." It's an old post, that problem 
> should not occur now.
>
> Why don't you just settle down and apply the advice there to the extent 
> you can, and see whether it helps?
>
> Do that, and you're closer to fixing the problem.
>
> > Is anyone besides me using a MAC to virtually build systems?
> >
> > Will updating my kickstart server to Fedora 8 do me any good?
>
> Try it and see.
> > Will reverting back to something like Fedora Core 4 or Fedora Core 5, be any
> > better?
>
> Bear in mind that the post Stowe referred to is much older than those, 
> and that they're no longer supported.
>
> > R,
> > -Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
> >  Senior IA Engineer
> >  ProSync Technology Group, LLC
> >  www.prosync.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com
> > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of s davison computer org
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:29
> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> > Subject: Re: More on NFS problem
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > The problem sounds something like the one described in...
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2005-November/msg00034.html
> >
> > Stowe Davison
> >
> >
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