NFS booting problem

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Oct 15 00:40:37 UTC 2007


Joe_Wulf wrote:
> I've got an on again, off again problem where I can initiate a kickstart for
> RHEL5 (32 or 64 bit), as well as
> for RHEL AS4 (32 or 64 bit) and many times the NFS mount for the KS config cannot
> be found.  Then,
> after numerous reboots to troubleshoot the problem, poof, the NFS mount is found
> and some systems
> get built.  Nothing changed.  Even reboots of the kickstart server, the Linksys
> router and the Mac Pro
> (with WinXP and VMware 6 installed) don't change that many restarts have to
> happen before it will
> somehow, magically start building.
>  
> A most confusing problem and one that I need insight, advice and questions from
> you all on what to
> check so I can solve it.  All help is appreciated!

It's some years since I did an NFS install. http, in my experience, 
works well. Do you have some reason (other than setup) not to do it too?

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John

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