From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 13:32:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B7237B401 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (herbelot.net1.nerim.net [62.212.117.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C898F43FA3 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h67KY1KP012696; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:34:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: bdodson@scms.utmb.EDU, current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:32:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <16137.53692.783846.229641@histidine.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <16137.53692.783846.229641@histidine.utmb.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307072232.38920.thierry@herbelot.com> Subject: Re: nfs installs of 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:32:49 -0000 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. TfH