Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:32:38 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: bdodson@scms.utmb.EDU, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs installs of 5.1 Message-ID: <200307072232.38920.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <16137.53692.783846.229641@histidine.utmb.edu>
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Le Monday 07 July 2003 22:02, M. L. Dodson a écrit : > Background: > I posted this on questions, but got no response. Since this used > to work, I thought it might be a 5.x issue. indeed, see later > $subject seems broken for me for 5.1 miniinst.iso > > Export /cdrom from 10.2.1.4; exports line: > /cdrom -maproot=0 -alldirs -network 10.2 -mask 255.255.0.0 > > Nfs server setup, on 4.8-STABLE, is well tested and known to > work. > > When prompted for nfs info during install, give 10.2.1.4:/cdrom, > netmask 255.255.0.0 (same subnet as target machine) -> configure > install target network (ip 10.2.1.200) -> get error: > > Error mounting 10.2.1.4:/cdrom on /dist: no such file or directory > > On ttyv4 find error messages (hand copied): > mount_nfs: can't update /var/db/mountdtab for 10.2.1.4:/cdrom > mount_nfs: Operation not supported by device > > On ttyv4 I can cd to /dist this may be due to kernel being unable to dynamically load nfs_client.ko I saw this when building a jumpstart server for 5.1 (PXE automatic install from another 5.1 server). I went around by stopping the boot loader in the boot phase, loading manually the nfs module, then proceeding with the install. TfHhome | help
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