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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