Well, then do the manual NFS mount, and tell YaST that you're installing from a local directory. Feline defurring permutations.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Installing Suse 9.0 with NFS Nope, didn't work. Or rather, same results. Received: > Directory: /home/suse9/installroot > > Yes/No: > yes > warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory > lockd: failed to open /var/lib/nfs/state: err=-2 > CD not mounted. Please check parameters. > Please specify the installation Source: And again, I can "0 abort" the installation, :mkdir thd" and then "mount -t nfs 192.168.99.210:/home/suse9/installroot thd" and read the files. So it seems that the NFS server is serving files properly, IP is setup for proper access, it is the install process that isn't working properly. My /etc/exports now looks like: > # cat /etc/exports > /home/suse9/installroot/ *(ro,root_squash,sync) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Post, Mark K wrote: > Tom, > > You should specify the install directory as an absolute path name: > /installroot > > In your /etc/exports file, you have > /installroot/ *(ro,root_squash,sync) > > You don't need that trailing slash. > /installroot *(ro,root_squash,sync) > would work just as well. > > You don't have to bind mount the directory. You could just export > /home/Suse9/installroot and tell YaST to use that: > /home/Suse9/installroot *(ro,root_squash,sync) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
