> Hi, > I'm trying to setup an unattended server on Fedora 10 and netbooting > the client but the booting process is stopped at the mount stage. The > exact error message is: > ---- > *** Trying to mount.cifs \\ntinstall\install /z -o > username=guest,ro,nocase > *** mount.cifs "succeeded", but /z/dosbin/install.pl not found > *** Failed to mount /z. Retrying... > ---- > what bothers me is that when i issue a Ctrl+X to get a shell, i can > use successfully the same command to mount the share ? I thought that > the issue was related to the backslash as when i type the same command > on my fedora box, i get: > ---- > mount error: improperly formatted UNC name. \ntinstallinstall does not > begin with \\ or // > ---- > So i tried to define the z_path var on my pxelinux.cfg/default boot > file but the initrd is still not able to mount the share and i just > don't know what i'm doing wrong :( > > Thanks for your help ! > > Have you check that it was already mounted? Expression is working some what different from prompt. Try: mount.cifs //ntinstall/install /z -o or may be: mount.cifs \\\\ntinstall\\install /z -o for bash the "\" is an escape character.
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