Bug#336518: yaird: document using NFS Root
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:24:05 +0100
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:03:37PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:52:52 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant
> > > +bugs@freegeek.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:51:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Currently, MOUNTDIR does not support nfsroot so needs to be
> > > > > commented out completely.
> > > >
> > > > ugh.
> > >
> > > Well, actually... Looking at FsEntry.pm and other code it might
> > > actually be supported somehow - or support is halfway there...
> >
> > It's recognised as something we can't support. Mounting eg
> > 'www.debian.org:/boot' would require name resolution, and there's
> > way too much guesswork involved in doing that on the initial boot
> > disk: do you want /etc/hosts? LDAP? NIS? DNS? There's other
> > unpleasantness involved in trying to interpret nfs partitions from
> > fstab on the boot image, but this is the most obvious one.
>
> What about runing host www.debian.org and using the returned IP
> address ?
Do host not require name resolving based on either /etc/hosts, LDAP,
NIS, DNS or other NSS plugins? I believe "host" is a concrete tool to
use, but not an answer to the question raised above by Erik.
Erik: Would it make sense to allow static IP, and only choke on non-IP
value before the colon in fstab?
- Jonas
- Jonas
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