Installing a (compressed) image over nfs

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Uwe E. Bilger wrote:

>On recovery, the post section is supposed to overwrite the whole HD
>with this particular image again:
>
>[...]
>#Firewall configuration
>firewall --disabled
>#Do not configure XWindows
>skipx
>#Package install information
>%packages --resolvedeps
>%post
>mkdir /mnt/server
>mount -t nfs 192.168.2.254:/backup/images /mnt/vitels
>gunzip -c /mnt/vitels/host2-hda.gz | dd of=/dev/hda
>
>
>
>And this aint working at all.
>
>Any ideas why?

A few thoughts:

What did happen? Was there any useful output on the virtual consoles?
Why is /mnt/server created then not used? Do you have any HDD partitions
still mounted when %post is reached?


Cheers,
Phil