total NFS newbie needs help

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:17, Terry Polzin wrote:
>On Saturday January 22 2005 23:42, William Hooper wrote:
>> Gene Heskett said:
>> >>> So at this point I have no idea if the network driver
>> >>> the installer has loaded is wrong or what.
>> >>
>> >> Check the log on the nfs server for connection attempts.
>> >
>> > It logs an authenticated connection but doesn't say if
>> > successfull or not, here is all that shows up in messages:
>> >
>> > Jan 21 19:43:09 coyote rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request
>> > from shop.coyote.den:786 for /usr/dlds-misc/FC3
>> > (/usr/dlds-misc/FC3)
>>
>> That would tend to rule out the network driver then.
>>
>> A couple more suggestions:
>>
>> Remove the extra ISOs.  You mention that you put all 9 in there. 
>> I don't recall if it matters, but you might try removing all but
>> the 4 needed for install.
>>
>> Double check permissions on the ISO files.
>>
>> It's been too long since I set mine up (and it is in a WBEL box),
>> but my NFS export has the "no_subtree_check" option.  I seem to
>> recall having issues until I added it.
>
>What are the perms on the NFS directory at the host?  I rembember
> having a problem with this once a while back.  Check the archives,
> I believe I posted my own problem and solutilon
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Dec 19 00:37 FC3
and
drwxr-xr-x  3 root   root        4096 Nov 11 19:49 download.fedora.redhat.com
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 646987776 Nov  3 17:05 FC3-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 668520448 Nov  3 17:07 FC3-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   667498496 Nov 11 22:59 FC3-i386-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   404764672 Nov 12 00:29 FC3-i386-disc4.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines  79908864 Nov  3 16:59 FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589832192 Nov  3 17:11 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589844480 Nov  3 17:12 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589815808 Nov  3 17:13 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589817856 Nov  3 17:15 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines       791 Nov  3 18:00 MD5SUM

ATM its moot, I *think* I have a cd install going, without any of
the i18n stuffs though.

I note that a friend of mine is the owner etc of some of those,
which is a puzzle because he doesn't have an account on
this machine, nor can I give him one in view of my firewalling
from the outside.  So I have a certified case of NDI how they
got that owner:group attached.  They were downloaded by me, as
root, using gftp since it can just keep hammering a slow site
till it gets it all.  And most of redhats machines can be considered
as somewhere between slow and really slow, often dropping well
below 3k a second on a 90k a second dsl connection here, or just
plain stopping, after 45 seconds of which gftp disconnects & retrys.

That makes trying to grab an iso pretty frustrating at times.  I'm
only a state away, so to use the closest mirror means either duke or
redhat themselves.  Theres one in Pittsburgh, but its connections
are usually all used up.  I think its limit is 15 or some such. :(

-- 
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