Re: FTP or NFS but not mixed?

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On 9 May 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 10:20, Philippe MALINGE wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I would like to use ftp to download rpm and all the stuff from the
> > 'kickstart server' and in the postinstall I would like to use a NFS
> > mount.
> > It seems to be impossible, because the kernel didn't load NFS required
> > modules. NFS mount is not possible. But if I use NFS at the beginning,
> > everything is OK.
> > 
> > In conclusion :
> > FTP+NFS => problem
> > NFS+NFS = OK
> > 
> 
> true. though this may have been corrected in 9, I don't recall.

I haven't looked either but yes it can be a real PITA.. we ended up 
wget:ing a tarball containing the necessary kernel modules for nfs and 
setting nfs up manually in %post. Nasty business but...

	- Panu -