From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 28 17:16:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9039616A400 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:16:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CF713C481 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:16:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 87750 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jan 2007 17:16:10 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.12?) (howie@thingy.com@212.21.124.49) by wotsit3.thingy.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Jan 2007 17:16:10 +0000 Message-ID: <45BCDA68.4020107@thingy.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:16:24 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Kostick III , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:16:13 -0000 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.