Kickstart fails mounting nfs source

[Ajitabh Pandey]

RHEL4 update 3 (both amd-64 and i386) works fine using kickstart over
http. Installed several servers so far. But you need to keep one thing
in mind if you are dealing with HP servers with RAID controllers (though
DL140s I don't think have RAID controllers), refer to the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187093


This is still true and reproducable every time I want to reproduce it.
Surprisingly there is no update on it so far.

Regards.
Ajitabh Pandey


-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dag Wieers
Sent: 11 August 2006 06:48
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: RE: Kickstart fails mounting nfs source


On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Elizabeth.Brosch at Thomson.com wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Chip Shabazian wrote:
> 
> > What version/update are you building from?
> >  
> > Can you access the nfs mount if installing manually (not doing ks on

> > the boot line)?
>  
> I am building from RHEL v4 Update 3.  Also, unfortunately I do not 
> have another server in this VLAN that I can test the NFS from.  I have

> 12 servers in this VLAN.  The first one I manually installed then 
> configured for kickstart/dhcp/tftp.
>  
> I am booting from CD #1 for the second server and entering "ks".  

I find HTTP much easier to use and debug. It might be slightly different
now that NFS is using TCP. But only having to ask for tcp/80 to be
opened in one direction and being able to check a log-file for
troubleshooting is worth my time :)

The same firewall rule is then used for installing updates using apt
(although in some environments we set up a remote tunnel using SSH).

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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