Is this happening only during jumpstart? What about "Interactive Install"?
-Narendra On 1/16/07, Kris Kasner <kris.kasner at qualcomm.com> wrote: > > Hey Folks.. > > I've been hacking and slashing the install scripts in the miniroot to try > and > figure this out.. I can't find anything wrong. I'm hoping that someone > might > have a suggestion for me. I've turned on install_debug, added additional > debugging to the scripts, changed get-netmask to point to something other > than a > netapp so the interface is configured correctly, etc.. > > We have a jumpstart environment that I test on vmware-server. If I jump a > system and select the 606 miniroot, everything flies. I get a full dist > install > in about 40 minutes. The same install using just the 1106 miniroot fails > to > complete because of NFS timeouts - I let it run for about 24 hours and it > still > had about 1gb remaining during the solaris install phase. It would install > a > little, tell me NFS server xxxx not responding.. nfs server xxxx OK, > install a > little more, etc. > > I'm using a NetAPP filer to hold the CD images, and a boot server on the > local > network for pxe/tftp and bootparams. I'm pointing to the same jumpstart > install > directory with the same root dir in both cases, the only difference is the > miniroot that is tftp'ing across to run the actual install. I can install > the > full 11/06 dist using the 6/06 miniroot without issues.. Once the install > is > done, the 11/06 system seems stable and happy. It's just the 11/06 > miniroot > that gives me NFS issues. I don't want to use the 6/06 miniroot for all > installs because of hardware support added to 11/06 (the M2 U20's, etc). > > We do not have nfsv4 enabled on the NetAPP, but I've forced all of the > mounts > to do vers=3 anyways just to cover the bases.. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance... > > --Kris > -- > > Thomas Kris Kasner > Qualcomm Inc. > 5775 Morehouse Drive > San Diego, CA 92121 > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > -- Warm Regards, Narendra Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070117/7dfc4aa1/attachment.html>
