Hi! Think I have the same o a similar problem (again) with our old nfs server. My installation of 11.4 also stops because of an NFS timeout during adding the repository. So... On 03/14/2011 08:24 PM, Pierre Girard wrote:
I'm trying to install opensuse 11.4 and so far the machine loads pxe, starts initrd and linux, and starts the installation process. At some point it looks to add repositories and I get an error message saying there was a problem adding a repository.
Here's the message from y2log:
2011-03-14 10:56:08 <1> client.example.com(3182) [YCP] Progress.ycp:599 Subprogress initialization skipped 2011-03-14 10:56:08 <3> client.example.com(3182) [YCP] Packages.ycp:1484 No repository in 'iso:/?iso=openSUSE-11.4-DVD-i586.iso&url=nfs://nfsserver.example.com/suse/opensuse/distribution/11.4/iso' 2011-03-14 10:56:08 <1> client.example.com(3182) [Pkg] Packages.ycp:1063 Pkg Builtin called: LastError
I checked the path, and I was able to manually mount the directory from one of the terminals without problem.
Have you tried to manually mount the repository from the (interrupted) installation system? Does this work? If not, does mount -o nolock,nfsvers=2 <repo> <dir> work? You can also try nfsvers=3. For me this works, but not without the "unlock" option as the rpcstatd is missing at this time and can not be started!? My problem now is, that from a pxe boot I see no possibility to pass the nolock option to linuxrc. The existing option nfsops=... doesn't allow the use of nolock, only udp, tcp, vers or rsize & wsize. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc Maybe those problems are not connected, but they sound similar to me. My colleague has no problems installing via NFS from a server with newer nfs version. Any ideas? Regards, -- Guenther Haas, Ulm University, Institute TAIT, guenther.haas@gmx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org