On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 16:50 +0100, Ola Thoresen wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 09:15, Mike Chambers wrote:
>> I had been having problems trying to do a rawhide install via NFS,
>> although it was against the rawhide tree, not against an ISO (yes was
>> using boot.iso). Is this allowed still or do you have to do it against
>> an ISO image unless it's via ftp/http? Actually I had problems doing it
>> against ftp/http as well (as in, "can't be mounted from the
server").
>> Although I could download all the FC6 ISO's to the same mounted dir
>> (diff sub dir) and install from them. So I am confused on what used to
>> work, doesn't now?
>
> I'm not ruling out NFS issues in the kernel preventing NFS installs, I don't
> recall having tried that much recently, but I will try today. We haven't
> changed what we "support" in that aspect, it would be something lower
level
> breaking.
>
>
I have had some problems with NFS lately.
Have not had the time to debug it properly, so I have no bugzilla entry.
Seems like a locking problem, so I changed my fstab to mount the
NFS-shares "nolock", and that seemed to fix the problem.
This is 2 rawhide clients (both x86_64 and i386) mounting an Fedora 5
server.
It started about one week ago, but I don't update and reboot the
rawhide-clients daily, so it might have been a few more days since the
updated that actually caused it.
Well, as far as mounting nfs partitions, that is no problem. I run one
PIV system as rawhide client, that mounts 2 NFS dir's from an FC6
server. That is fine, and even installing from FC6 iso's (via nfs) on
that same dir is fine. But I mirror rawhide (from a mirror) and when
trying to do an install against the nfs rawhide tree (not iso's), it
doesn't work.
I guess maybe the question should be is the tree installable, or do you
have to currently use iso's for some reason.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"