In my case, the NFS servers were linux machines. I have two linux machines,
and tried NFS upgrades in both directions. I had the
RedHat dist in /vol/RedHat, /vol being it's own filesystem. /vol is nfs
exported. I confirmed that I could mount /vol from the machine doing the
installed, and told the installer program that the redhat dist was in /vol and
/vol/RedHat. Neitherg worked. It did the mount, and the log file on the server
machine showed that the mount was successful.
Also, doing the upgrade when the redhat dist was on the machine's harddisk,
and in a partition listed in /etc/fstab (such as /vol), then the install
program would try to mount that filesystem twice, and then die. That bug has
come and gone in various previous redhat versions.
Only when I had redhat in a partition not mounted by /etc/fstab did the
upgrade work.
Rick Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bill,
>
> Thanks for your input. The NFS server is actually a Sun box running
> Solaris 2.6. If I do a CD-ROM install, I can mount the drive after
> installation and everything looks fine. But I cannot do the install
> from the NFS filesystem even though the Sun does say it has authorized
> the mount. I guess the next step is to make a Linux box an NFS server
> and export from there to see if it works any better.
>
> - rick warner -
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rick Warner wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply. Not having a working NFS install is a pain as
> > > kickstart only works with NFS over the net. Guess I will have to wait
> > > for RH to come out with a fixed install disk.
> > >
> > > - rick warner -
> > >
> >
> > Hey Rick,
> >
> > I've had a few problems with Zoot install (2 pages worth of notes), but
> > NFS install was not one of them. How do you have your install media
> > shared? Are you using knfsd? Is /mnt/cdrom in /etc/exports specifically?
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> >
> > Bill Carlson
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