[rhelv6-beta-list] Does the NFS install with ISO images still work?

Bryan J. Smith thebs413 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 00:48:40 UTC 2010


I used to do NFS installs back in the '90s.  By the time the 21st
century rolled around, I started doing HTTP.  Now with YUM, it's
the only thing one should really consider doing.


--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [rhelv6-beta-list] Does the NFS install with ISO images still work?
> To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) Beta releases discussion mailing-list" <rhelv6-beta-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 12:42 AM
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Simon
> Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
> wrote:
> >> Sort of. It's a little more work than it used to
> be, but not much.
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584472
> >>
> >> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html-single/Installation_Guide/#id4005600
> >
> > Thanks, that explains my issue. BTW, I can not find
> the diskboot.img
> > mentioned here
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html-single/Installation_Guide/#sect-New_Users-Alternative_Boot_Methods
> > I guess it's because the docs have not been updated.
> >
> > Simon
> 
> I also recommend very strongly against the NFS installation
> approach.
> While it may have some speedups, it often leaves dangling
> NFS mounts
> recorded on the server, which makes "showmount" show all
> sorts of
> debris. This is particularly bad when a DHCP driven
> kickstart system
> does not pre-allocate DHCP reservations for kickstart
> configured
> servers, so the new host bounces from a DHCP address at
> kickstart time
> to a server-style static configuration, and the NFS mount
> is never
> completely forgotten until someone has a harsh word with
> the NFS
> server. And if you don't own the NFS server (for example,
> if it's a
> NetApp owned by another engineering crew), it's very
> difficult to
> clean up.
> 
> It's also not *that* much faster, and HTTP is easier to
> load balance
> for the servers.
> 
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