More on NFS problem

[Keegan, Gordon]

Joe,

(apologies if this has already been suggested or discounted...)

For what it's worth, we initially migrated away from an NFS-based
install back in the RedHat 7.2/AS 2.1 days when the NFS drivers took up
too much space on the boot floppy and we needed to add other NIC
drivers.  We have had success ever since using the http install method.
It would be a fairly simple change in the ks.cfg file to change the "nfs
--server a.b.c.d --dir /x/y/z" line to a "url --url
http://server/install_dir " line, with slightly more involved work in
the postinstall if you need to convert NFS-accessed data to
"wget"-accessed data.

Gordon Keegan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe_Wulf [mailto:Joe_Wulf at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:34 AM
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: RE: More on NFS problem

John,

Thank you.

I probably could dig into initrd.img hacking, but the subsequent rounds
of
testing to handle scenarios of employment don't seem to make it worth
doing when
compared with my targets/goals/objectives.  My customer tends to look
for
hardware and operating systems that work right out of the box, with the
end-implementation being the holy-rolled magic bean.

You'd mentioned about an old post, and from that, its "... something
that should
not occur now".  I agree.  I would have thought these versions of the
OS, being
years later, would have had such problems nuked.  And again, rolling up
many
initrd images simply didn't seem like a practical application of time.

Would still like to know if anyone is using a MacPro, with Windoze and
VMware
installed to kickstart build systems.

I'd asked about migrating my kickstart server to Fedora 8 for a couple
of
reasons.  I've heard that it might actually be more stable and reliable
(like for
avoiding the kinds of problems I have) by using an older OS for the
kickstart'er.
So along those lines I'd expected to hear from folks who've experience
and/or an
opinion on that, based on their experiences in the past.  Further, I
wanted to
save the time installing Fedora 8 if someone's experience told them it
would be a
waste of time.  Sure, I can try it, and see what I get.  And with the
exhaustion
of other viable things to test/try, might be worth it.

I think I got everything.


R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
 Senior IA Engineer
 ProSync Technology Group, LLC
 www.prosync.com

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Summerfield
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 01:15
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: More on NFS problem

Joe_Wulf wrote:
> John,
> 
> I apologize, John, since my bluntness has offended you.
> 

I accept all that you say, and I now understand your frustration.

Now, if you read through my reply and respond to each point in turn, you

can address the other points I raised.

Quite possibly I won't find your solution, but perhaps with some more, 
to the point, responses someone will get you there.

It might be that you need to do something to help sort out the problem 
that won't be acceptable as a final solution, but if it's plausible, 
it's worth trying.

Hacking on an initrd is no big deal, these days it can be a CPIO 
archive, compressed (with gzip) or not.

btw  Perhaps you should ask on which ever list applies to your distro? 
Lots of folk there use kickstart too.

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