RE: [suse-autoinstall] suse 10.0 nfs install
by Gunreben, Peter (Peter)
Roger,
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:51 +0100, Gunreben, Peter (Peter) wrote:
> > Roger,
> >
> > Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > >
> > > The install kernel boots. At some point it wants to get a
> DHCP address
> > > for the ethernet card. This 'should' be working as it got
> an address
> > > when it first booted. I see this in the server's
> > > /var/log/messages. But
> > > this seems to timeout. My dhcp entry is:
> > >
> > > host jboc1 {
> > >
> > > filename "/suseInstall/pxelinux.0";
> > > fixed-address 192.30.105.204;
> > > hardware ethernet 00:30:48:56:38:B2;
> > > next-server 192.30.105.201;
> > > option host-name "jboc1";
> > > }
> > >
> > > 192.30.105.201 is the server for everything (dhcp, pxe,
> suse install)
> > >
> > > After this, I get a message that the SUSE installation source
> > > cannot be
> > > found. When trying to set it up by hand (nice it does that),
> > > I see that
> > > the default values it offers are the ones I expect (despite
> > > the probable
> > > DHCP oddness). But when it tries to mount the nfs install
> source, it
> > > fails with 'unknown error -1'.
> >
> > Have you checked whether the nfs-export works properly, e.g.
> > by mounting it manually? I had a similar problem, where
> > I tried to export a loop-mounted directory tree. Only,
> > a userspace-nfsserver can do that.
>
> I can mount it from other systems. Using
>
> mount -t nfs source:/vol1/distro/OpenSUSE10.0/suse10.0 /tmp/vv
>
> I can read files and go into directories.
It just got back to my mind that I had an additional problem. For
any reason I still do not know, I had to add insmod=<my_NIC_kernelmodule>
to the kernel parameters in order to get everything work. Of course,
you need to replace <my_NIC_kernelmodule> with the one you need. May
be it's worth to give it a try.
Peter.
