Forcing TCP over NFS Kickstart Install
Geoff Mayes
gmayes at vmware.com
Thu Apr 26 00:35:10 UTC 2007
>There is a RHEL 4-specific way of doing this only implemented in Update
>4 and beyond. Here's the entry from the Changelog:
> * loader2/nfsinstall.c Add support for passing nfs mount
> options by specifying nfsmountopts= on the boot
> command line. NOTE: this syntax will only exist in RHEL4. For
> future major releases of RHEL, this will be handled on a more
> fine-grained basis. (Brian Long, #168384)
>
>I believe you would need to rebuild anaconda for 3 U5 with the patch I
>submitted to Red Hat for nfsmountopts. nfsmount.c function nfsmount()
>has checking for a "tcp" mount option, but there is no way to pass this
>option to loader and have it be passed to the nfsmount() function.
>
>/Brian/
Thank you very much Brian. This is just the info I needed.
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