From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 20:42:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F236116A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:42:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.oss.uswest.net (mail.oss.uswest.net [204.147.85.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A9643D31 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:42:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from novak@mail.oss.uswest.net) Received: from mail.oss.uswest.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.oss.uswest.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1GKg9Qp034679 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:42:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from novak@mail.oss.uswest.net) Received: (from novak@localhost) by mail.oss.uswest.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1GKg8Ri034678 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:42:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from novak) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:42:08 -0600 From: Jamie Novak To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050216204208.GA32282@mail.oss.uswest.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: multi-version jumpstart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:42:10 -0000 I currently have a jumpstart server setup in such a way that we can specify on a "configure" command-line various install options (which 4.x-RELEASE we want to use, server config type, etc.). This part is working great and has saved us a ton of time. Now that 5.x is moving into the realm of being stable enough for our production uses, we're looking into making use of some of the SMP-related goodies in that release line. Unfortunately, I do not seem to be able to get our jumpstart server to be able to dynamically install both 4.x and 5.x targets from the same machine. I'm able to get the jumpstart server to export the 5.3-RELEASE partition and pass the GENERIC kernel and install.cfg over to the network-booting machine, but when it comes time to actually NFS mount the install partition on the target server to run the install, it returns an NFS error: mount_nfs -P 10.x.x.x:/releases/5.3-RELEASE/ /dist mount_nfs: Can't update /var/db/mounttab for 10.x.x.x:/releases/5.3-RELEASE mount_nfs: /dist: operation not supported by device I'm assuming the problem is related to the fact that the jumpstart server is running 4.x-RELEASE, while the OS I'm trying to install on the target server (and the kernel that's attempting to NFS mount the partition) is from the 5.x line and they're fighting over mounttab magic. Does anybody know if this kind of thing is possible? If so, what did you do to enable such a configuration to work? (Would it be possible to install both 4.x and 5.x on network-booting clients if the jumpstart server was 5.x instead of 4.x as it is now?) I'd really like to avoid having to build a second jumpstart server just to get 5.x installs working, but I'm afraid it's looking like that's the way I'll need to go... Any tips would be most appreciated. -Jamie