Hello,
thanks to everybody who sent the advices.
It has inspired me to test again what is going on. As first step I tried
to change the nfs server (I used Digital UNIX 4.0f as the NFS server
before).
I started to use Linux NFS server and found out that it does work!
I tested again my old server and found that I get routinely signal 11 as
described earlier. The signal 11 arises during the mount process from NFS
server (I saw it on screen 3 - Alt/F3 just after the receiving the signal
11).
I do not know why so serious difference in between two platforms. May be
it is result of minor peculiarity or unknown for me bug. Anyway old
fashion Digital is just near to be retired.
Also I have found out that with Linux NFS server you might get a range of
error messages in case of some mistyping, for instance:
- no such directory or the directory does not contain SL directory tree;
- the directory could not be mounted (in case when no permission to mount,
or the directory is not exported on NFS server)
Because I have no DHCP server (all IPs are static) I was urged to use two
floppy disks (one for system with file ks.cfg and other floppy with the
network drivers). Also I needed to answer on the question on the console.
In result (to avoid any console questions) I use single CD disk for every
machine (it will be used later on as the fast reinstall the OS) with
following files
=======================================================================
[root@ram3 Installed]# ls -lt isolinux/
total 3048
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1183 Nov 16 14:15 ks.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9428 Nov 16 12:36 isolinux.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Nov 16 12:36 isolinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2198339 Nov 16 11:45 initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 890390 Nov 16 11:44 vmlinuz
========================================================================
The files were downloaded from the directory
ftp://linux03.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/302/i386/isolinux/
Example of the file ks.cfg
=======================================================================
[root@ram3 Installed]# cat isolinux/ks.cfg
lang en_US
langsupport en_US
keyboard us
mouse --emulthree genericps/2
timezone --utc America/New_York
rootpw --iscrypted *********************
text
bootloader --useLilo --linear --location=mbr
install
nfs --server 129.49.17.68 --dir /Short1Users
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
autopart # Automatically define the disk partitions.
# That is for new host
# Network ports
network --bootproto static --device eth0 --ip 129.49.17.85 --netmask
255.255.255.192 --gateway 129.49.17.65 --nameserver 129.49.7.3
network --bootproto static --device eth1 --ip 10.129.2.32 --netmask
255.255.255.0
auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain aa --nisserver
129.49.17.78
firewall --medium --trust eth1 --trust eth0 --ssh
deviceprobe
skipx
%packages --resolvedeps
@yum
@misc-sl
============================================================================
The CD disk is prepared by commands
============================================================================
mkisofs -o SUNY-KS-NFS.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -v -T isolinux/
/usr/bin/cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 SUNY-KS-NFS.iso
=============================================================================
After that I need only to insert just written CD disk into appropriate
machine and press button 'RESET'. Evrything is done after automatically.
Again thanks a lot for all advices.
Andrey.
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Connie Sieh wrote:
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:21:24 -0600 (CST)
> From: Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Eric Wu <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask],
> Scientific Linux maillist <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: install exited abnormakky -- received signal 11
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Eric Wu wrote:
>
> > HI Andrey
> >
> > I don't know the cause of this problem, but
> > one potential fix is to use http installs instead.
>
> Or ftp. Note that we do NFS installs all the time.
>
> I suggest that you try just doing a nfs install without kickstart. This
> gives you a better view of any error messages that are available.
> Once you figure out what the issue is you can go back to kickstart.
>
> Use the boot.iso cd image and select NFS.
>
> -Connie Sieh
> >
> > Use a line like this:
> >
> > url --url http://128.33.16.60/kickstart
> >
> > You would have to set up a web server.
> >
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > At 06:45 PM 11/15/2004 -0500, Andrey Y. Shevel wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I deploy Scoentific Linux 302 on a range of the computers with kickstart
> > >procedure. When I use CD disk as media - everything does work as expected
> > >
> > >in file ks.cfg
> > >
> > >------------------
> > >install
> > >cdrom
> > >--------------
> > >
> > >but when I tried to use NFS
> > >
> > >-----------------
> > >install
> > >nfs --server 129.49.17.67 --dir /NewUsers/Ram/RedHat/RedHat-SL302
> > >-----------------
> > >
> > >I have the messaage just in moment when the installation tried to connect
> > >to the server 129.49.17.67
> > >
> > >-----------------------------------------------
> > >install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> > >------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >Generally it is not first time when I have got such the message. THe same
> > >I had a year ago when I have deployed RH80.
> > >
> > >Surprisingly the same hardware (dual Xeon 500 MHz) I used 3 years earlier
> > >under RH72 and under RH72 I had no problem with network installation.
> > >
> > >Now I tested two type of the CPUs:
> > >
> > > dual Xeon 500 MHz (512 MB of main memory);
> > >
> > > dual Xeon 3.06 GHz (1 GB of main memory).
> > >
> > >I got exactly same result decribed above.
> > >
> > >May be someone has the knowledge about the cause ?
> > >
> > >Many thank in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >Andrey Y. Shevel
> > >
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