Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:16:24 +0000 From: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> To: Paul Kostick III <pk3@musiccomputer.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install Message-ID: <45BCDA68.4020107@thingy.com> In-Reply-To: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAHCxhgnpMKBMrTjYKPvFFW0CkQAAEAAAABQmenQv1W5Lj3bXE5GWgk8BAAAAAA==@musiccomputer.net> References: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAHCxhgnpMKBMrTjYKPvFFW0CkQAAEAAAABQmenQv1W5Lj3bXE5GWgk8BAAAAAA==@musiccomputer.net>
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Paul Kostick III wrote: > I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic > with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 > and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. > But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it won't mount. My mount point > is 192.168.1.50:/tftpboot/freebsd6.2/ > > I can mount this nfs mount point from another client, but not from the > jumpstart/sysinstall menu. Any suggestions? Another oddity is that I > noticed is when setting up the NIC, it does not get an ip address. It seems > to have a network issue, the network works on startup with the network/pxe > boot. It gets its ip, boots to the sysinstall menu. > > Has anyone else jumpstarted 6.2 succesfully? > I have successfully jumpstarted 6.0,6.1 and 6.2 with Intel NICs on Dell servers. So it does work. I solved almost all my problems just by turning up logging on DHCP and TFTPd. I also rebuilt pxeboot with the TFTP option[1] rather than NFS, simply because I don't know of a way to get NFS to log, whereas TFTP does, so you can see what files are failing when it all goes wrong. :-) Howie [1] look in the pxeboot Makefile, and there is a make.conf option to do TFTP instead of the usual NFS.
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