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. The directory contains: ARCHIVES.gz autorun.inf boot ChangeLog content control.xml COPYING COPYING.de COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT.de directory.yast docu dosutils gpg-pubkey-0dfb3188-41ed929b.asc gpg-pubkey-15c17deb-3f9e80c9.asc gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc gpg-pubkey-9c800aca-40d8063e.asc INDEX.gz LICENSE.TXT LIESMICH LIESMICH.DOS ls-lR.gz media.1 media.2 media.3 media.4 media.5 pubring.gpg README README.DOS suse SuSEgo.ico which is how Yast copied the CD contents when setting up the install server. All the packages are in subdirectories in suse, as expected. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 53 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23