{Disarmed} Re: problems w/ net (http) install

[Craig White]

I believe that using NFS, you would want to serve out the ISO and not
the individual files...I remember someone cluing me in on that a while
back.

It is beginning to sound like you have a problem with one or more of
your routers.

Anyway, there are a number of packages that provide a lot of utility for
Linux servers that aren't available for OS X server such as 'cobbler and
mrepo'

I heavily recommend mrepo (Dag package) that allows me to create a local
mirror for any repos that I want, uses the ISO to create the 'base' and
can also mirror the updates and also provides tftp package for
installation and http server base for installation. With mrepo, every
install I do is a kickstart.

Craig

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 17:36 -0400, Matt Nicholson wrote:
> Craig,
> 
> For your 4 points:
> 
> NFS isn't strictly off the table, but the system hosting this install
> tree will need to be accessible from alot of system across a large
> number of subnets/VLAN's. I would rather have port 80 open to these
> nets/the world than NFS, but then again I can just make it an "ro"
> export. Something to try next week. 
> 
> I'm not mounting the iso's, but rather have full fledged, rsync'd
> copies of the install tree, local on disk.
> 
> No energy saving on the Xserve. It doesn't powerdown/spin down at all,
> ever. 
> 
> The Xserve is running Leopard Server, MailScanner warning: numerical
> links are often malicious: 10.5.3. Unfortunatly, no erros in the logs.
> Everything looks normal. 
> 
> And Rick,
> 
> Nope the packages aren't big ones, fairly standard, 1MB-ish packages,
> although the packages do change. The keep alive is set at 300 seconds,
> which = 5 minutes. The thing is, this is all happening while anaconda
> is preparing to install (ie, not when its acctually downloading and
> installing the rpms, the set jsut before that starts). It zips right
> though until it hits one of these files. If it wasn't interupted, the
> whole thing could finish in maybe 1 minute, if not less, so I don't
> think timeouts are an issue. I've even up'd the number of conenction
> Apache allows, and the nubmer of servers it spawns, jsut incase
> anaconda was hammering it with too many requests. 
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> wrote:
>         
>             I. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:45 -0400, Matt Nicholson
>         wrote:
>         > Greetings everyone,
>         >
>         > So, I'm trying to setup a local server for some net-installs
>         I hope to
>         > do with a kickstart file. I am, however, running into an
>         issue.
>         >
>         > I have a copy of the fedora 9 install media on the web
>         server that the
>         > install will be pulled from, and everything is in tip top
>         shape. This
>         > server is actually a fairly new Xserve, and I am using it
>         simply
>         > because it is available, has to disk-space and bandwidth,
>         and is a
>         > pretty fast system for multiple systems to kickstart aganst.
>         I would
>         > rather be doing this off a Fedora/RHEL server, but, this is
>         what I
>         > have for the time being.
>         >
>         > Anyways, I've rsync'd the install media to the server, and
>         its
>         > accessible, however, durring the install, I always get a
>         file or two
>         > (sometimes different, sometimes the same), that anaconda
>         spits back at
>         > me, saying it could not find/read the file, make sure its
>         not
>         > currupted, etc etc etc. I can reboot, or retry, and retry
>         always
>         > works, that is, until it hit the next file ti doesn't like.
>         I get
>         > about 3-4 of these per install, EVERY TIME. I've checked,
>         the files
>         > are there, they are the right size, I've even done an MD% of
>         them and
>         > they match their sources. I even re-rsync'd the whole thing
>         a few
>         > times.If this is a one time deal, I wouldn't mind, but I
>         need to be
>         > able to basically start an install (via kickstart) and walk
>         away.
>         >
>         > Now, normally, I would just say forget it, and do it over
>         FTP, but FTP
>         > on this Xserver is very, very slow, and my installs, while
>         succeeding
>         > without error, are about 10 times longer with the same
>         package set.
>         > Also the network alyout means NFS is off the table as well.
>         >
>         > Any ideas? I would love any insight.
>         
>         ----
>         I'd be curious about why the network layout means that NFS is
>         off the
>         table but HTTP is on the table.
>         
>         Anyway, are you 'loop' mounting the ISO files? Is there
>         something that
>         delays reading the files?
>         
>         Is Energy saving allowing the hard drive to spin down on the
>         XServer?
>         (Mac's sometimes default to sleep modes with hard drive spin
>         down which
>         would be a mistake for a server).
>         
>         What OS is on the X-Serve? Are there errors in the web server
>         logs on
>         the X-Serve?
>         
>         Craig
>         
>         
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