Re: [freebsd-questions] freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install
Paul Kostick III wrote: I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it won't mount. My mount point is 192.168.1.50:/tftpboot/freebsd6.2/ I can mount this nfs mount point from another client, but not from the jumpstart/sysinstall menu. Any suggestions? Another oddity is that I noticed is when setting up the NIC, it does not get an ip address. It seems to have a network issue, the network works on startup with the network/pxe boot. It gets its ip, boots to the sysinstall menu. Has anyone else jumpstarted 6.2 succesfully? I have successfully jumpstarted 6.0,6.1 and 6.2 with Intel NICs on Dell servers. So it does work. I solved almost all my problems just by turning up logging on DHCP and TFTPd. I also rebuilt pxeboot with the TFTP option[1] rather than NFS, simply because I don't know of a way to get NFS to log, whereas TFTP does, so you can see what files are failing when it all goes wrong. :-) Howie [1] look in the pxeboot Makefile, and there is a make.conf option to do TFTP instead of the usual NFS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install
Paul Kostick III wrote: Hello, I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it won't mount. My mount point is 192.168.1.50:/tftpboot/freebsd6.2/ I can mount this nfs mount point from another client, but not from the jumpstart/sysinstall menu. Any suggestions? Another oddity is that I noticed is when setting up the NIC, it does not get an ip address. It seems to have a network issue, the network works on startup with the network/pxe boot. It gets its ip, boots to the sysinstall menu. Has anyone else jumpstarted 6.2 succesfully? The information above is not enough for anyone to help you: - what have you in your dhcpd.conf? - does the kernel you boot support nfs? - did you compile your kernel for the pxe client with bootp? If you have a network issue, then that may also explain why you can't mount. Does the kernel support the nic you have? Anyway, for jumpstart install I think it is much simpler to install via ftp rather than messing around with nfs. I haven't tried 6.2, only 6.1, and I haven't seen any changes since 6.1 that should affect jumpstart Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install
Hello, I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it won't mount. My mount point is 192.168.1.50:/tftpboot/freebsd6.2/ I can mount this nfs mount point from another client, but not from the jumpstart/sysinstall menu. Any suggestions? Another oddity is that I noticed is when setting up the NIC, it does not get an ip address. It seems to have a network issue, the network works on startup with the network/pxe boot. It gets its ip, boots to the sysinstall menu. Has anyone else jumpstarted 6.2 succesfully? Thanks, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
