Problems doing a ks over NFS
Philip Rowlands
phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Mon Dec 19 14:52:45 UTC 2005
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
[snip]
> The network infrastructure is such that these 400 servers are spread
> over multiple vlans in order to spread the servers over multiple
> routers, etc. Normally i would be able to have dhcp forwarding
> enabled, which MIGHT have solved my problem, but in our environment
> this would be a huge no-no. So, in an effort to get around that
> problem, i have a few dhcp-relay servers running, one on each of the
> subnets (vlans) in this environment So, when kickstarting a box that
> sits natively on the same subnet as the yum/ks server - this works,
> nfs is found, mounted, and the kickstart works. Now, for ANY other
> box, not sitting on the same subnet, this fails, even though i can see
> the dhcp requests getting there from the relay servers, the nfs mount
> is not able to be found, nor mounted, so the kickstart fails.
Are you sure the DHCP relay is working? What happens outside of a
kickstart install?
Are you sure that NFS is working? What happens outside of a kickstart
install?
[repeat as necessary; try doing a manual install and note at which point
it breaks]
Cheers,
Phil
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