Re: Problem with nfsroot
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:39:09AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> A friend of mine tried to install woody with nfsroot recently, i.e.
> on a sparc with no local hard disk used, but through an nfs exported
> directory.
>
> This was not possible, probably due to this bug:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00154.html
>
> In short: debootstrap fails because dpkg fails because setting a lock
> on NFS fails.
>
> Any chance to get this fixed for a woody point release? This may
> require a change in dpkg, though. Unfortunately I don't have enough
> spare time at the moment to work on it on my own.
IIRC, the workaround was documented in the manual. But the change to fix
it would be in dpkg.
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