AW: NFS mount failed

[Martin Newiger]

Hi Ryan,

did you do a chkconfig nfs on? 

I think you must enter the full Path to the ks.cfg-file:linux
ks=nfs:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg

Regards,
Martin

>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von:	Ryan Golhar [SMTP:golharam at umdnj.edu]
>Gesendet am:	Donnerstag, 11. März 2004 15:50
>An:	kickstart-list at redhat.com
>Betreff:	RE: NFS mount failed
>
>Hi Martin,
>
>1. I've set up the DHCP server with the filename "/kickstart/ks.cfg"
>option
>2. Set up the NFS server to share /kickstart
>3. Created the kickstart file and put in /kickstart and copied the CDs
>there too.
>4. Booted a machine from the 1st CD and enter "linux ks"
>
>It successfully obtains an IP address and location for obtaining the
>kickstart file.  I can't tell from the output if actually got the
>kickstart file...I thought it did.  Then it tries to mount /kickstart
>and fails.  This is way I'm not sure it was able to get the kickstart
>file or just knows about it from the DHCP reply.
>
>
>-----
>Ryan Golhar
>Computational Scientist
>The Informatics Institute at
>The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
>
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: kickstart-list-admin at redhat.com
>[mailto:kickstart-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Martin Newiger
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:24 AM
>To: 'kickstart-list at redhat.com'
>Subject: AW: NFS mount failed
>
>
>Hi Ryan,
>
>what steps did you take already?
>
>Cheers,
>Martin
>
>
>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von:	Ryan Golhar [SMTP:golharam at umdnj.edu]
>>Gesendet am:	Freitag, 5. März 2004 18:30
>>An:	kickstart-list at redhat.com
>>Betreff:	NFS mount failed
>>
>>I'm trying to setup a kickstart for multiple machines.  I have a DHCP 
>>server running that also has the ks.cfg file in an nfs share called 
>>/kickstart.  I also have the RedHat CDs copied into /kickstart/RedHat
>>
>>When I start a kickstart installation, I get the "failed to mount NFS 
>>source".
>>
>>I check to make sure I can mount /kickstart from other machines.  I'm 
>>wondering if I didn't copy the contents of the CDs in the correct 
>>directory, or am sharing the wrong directory.  Can anyone help?
>>
>>Ryan
>>
>>
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