Hi,


I used in kickstart file

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nfs --server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --dir /Short1Users

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and my directory tree was

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/Users/shevel:Thu Nov 17[]10:22:01:$> ls -l /Short1Users
total 68
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root  4096 Apr 15  2005 Ram
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 64572 Nov 18  2004 ram32.log
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     5 Mar  7  2005 SL -> SL302
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root    40 Mar  3  2005 SL302
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root    40 Mar  8  2005 SL303

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May be this will help you.


Best regards,


Andrey.





On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Sascha Brechenmacher wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:11:59 +0100
> From: Sascha Brechenmacher <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: kickstart problem
>
> Hi,
>
> I moved my files from one to another NFS Server. Nothing, always the
> same error.
> The one server was a Supermicro dual Xeon and the other an Tyan dual
> Opteron.
>
> Could there be something wrong with my mirror or my ramdisk?
>
> I do the mirror with
>
> rsync -avzlH --exclude=sites/Fermi --exclude=errata/debuginfo
> --exclude=errata/obsolete --exclude=ia64 --exclude=iso --exclude SRPMS
> rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/scientific/4x/ /data/mirror/SL/4x/
>
> I changed the kernel and the modules from the default pxe image, cause I
> need the bmc5700 module.
> But that shouldnt be a problem, or?
>
> Sascha
>
> Andrey Y. Shevel schrieb:
>
> >Hi colleagues,
> >
> >if you used right directory names it might be connected to unknown (for
> >me) hardware issues.
> >
> >I met similar problem two times:
> >
> >- when I used Alpha server 4000 as NFS server;
> >
> >- when I used little bit special server Intel (I do not remember exact
> >  configuration).
> >
> >
> >In both cases when I changed NFS server to more or less standard machine
> >everything became fine.
> >
> >Best regards.
> >
> >
> >Andrey.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Sascha Brechenmacher wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:29:52 +0100
> >>From: Sascha Brechenmacher <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: Howard Peng <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Cc: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Re: kickstart problem
> >>
> >>I tried every path from /data/mirror/SL till /data/mirror/SL/4x/x86_64/SL/
> >>and no one worked.
> >>
> >>Sascha
> >>
> >>Howard Peng schrieb:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Try just --dir=/data/mirror/SL/4x/x86_64/
> >>>
> >>>Howard
> >>>
> >>>Sascha Brechenmacher wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>>i tried since a day to install a server (amd64) via kickstart. The
> >>>>first problem was the bcm5700 kernel module.
> >>>>That is now fixed. But now i receive a "That directory does not seem
> >>>>to contain a Scientific Linux installation tree"
> >>>>from kickstart.
> >>>>
> >>>>That's what I've done. I mirrored the i386 and x86_64 tree from SL 4x
> >>>>to /data/mirror/SL/4x/i386 and
> >>>>/data/mirror/SL/4x/x86_64 than I changed my kickstart.cfg to install
> >>>>from NFS with the following entry
> >>>>
> >>>>nfs --server=192.168.52.253  --dir=/data/mirror/SL/4x/x86_64/SL/
> >>>>
> >>>>than I reboot. NFS is working I see the mount in the logs.
> >>>>
> >>>>Could somebody give me  hint?
> >>>>
> >>>>Best regards,
> >>>>Sascha Brechenmacher
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> >
> >Andrey Y. Shevel
> >
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