YT,

I will research this issue.


-Connie Sieh

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, YT wrote:

> Trying to install SL5.2 i386 via NFS on host CLNT from NFS server SRV.
> Server SRV running SL5.1.
> Directory on SRV contains SL-52-062608-i386-DVD.iso (integrity verified).=
>
>
> CLNT boots fine using boot.iso CD.
> Everything works until after the path of the distribution
> directory is specified.  Then failure with "loader received SIGSEGV!".
> SRV log shows that the file system is mounted by CLNT.
> CLNT running SL5.2 from disk can NFS mount SL distribution
> directory from SRV and can mount the DVD.iso file properly.
>
> Had the same problem with SL5.1.  However, SL5.0 worked fine.
> Everything works fine with CentOS 5.1 or 5.2
> with the distribution on the same file system on the same
> host (SRV) and with the same client (CLNT) (so it seems unlikely
> that this is an NFS config problem).
>
> With SL5.1 the workaround I used was to copy the .iso file
> to a partition on the local disk and install from there.
> This worked fine but is a hassle.
>
> The question is what has changed with SL regarding installation
> via NFS from SL5.0 to SL5.1, or, alternatively, what is different
> regarding installation via NFS between SL5.1 and CentOS 5.1 or
> between SL5.2 and CentOS 5.2 ?
>