Problems doing a ks over NFS

[Philip Rowlands]

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