Sascha,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Sascha Brechenmacher wrote:

> 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?

How did you change the kernel and the modules?

I assume that this new kernel has ethernet that is working.  You can look 
at modules that are installed and other useful messages by  going to 
virtual console 3 and 4 with a ctrl-f3 ctrl-f4 .

I also assume that the nfs area is exported correctly.

-Connie Sieh


 > 
> 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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