NFS mount problems
Does anyone have a clue as to what the problem is with NFSv3 in the
installation system? Is this still a problem with more recent kernels?
----- Forwarded message from "Peter J Farley III <pjfarley3@yahoo.com>" <pjfarley3@yahoo.com> -----
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:18:23 -0000
From: "Peter J Farley III <pjfarley3@yahoo.com>" <pjfarley3@yahoo.com>
To: hercules-390@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [hercules-390] Re: Can't nfs mount from Debian-390 bootstrap system
--- In hercules-390@yahoogroups.com, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@c...> wrote:
<Snipped>
> Yes. I do not know what the problem is; you might try
> debian-s390 at lists.debian.org
Thanks a lot, Matt. I went over there and found a post from Gerhard
Tonn from October 2002, and he pointed a similar problem over on the
Marist linux390 list (see his post from the October 2002 Marist
archive at this url (watch wrapping!):
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/2002/debian-s390-200210/msg00015.html>):
>A similar problem was discussed on the Marist list
>
>http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.30073
>
>Could you give that a try.
>
>Gerhard
At the linux390 link, I found this advice from Stefan Gybas:
>This might be a problem with the NFS version. Could you open a
>shell from dbootstrap and try to manually mount the NFS filesystem
>using
>
>mount newton:/cdrom/cdrom0/dists/woody/main/disks-s390/current \
> /instmnt -o nolock,nfsvers=2
>and then try to continue the installation? Please tell me if this
>works for you. We might have to disable NFSv3 for the installation
>system in this case.
Well, I brought up the installation bootstrap system as far as
telnetting in to start the configuration, then telentted into a
second session. The "mount" suggested by Stefan worked!
However, that syntax results in an RW mount to an RO source, so I
tried this syntax instead:
mount -o ro,nolock,nfsvers=2 server:/mnt/cdrom /instmnt
And this also worked fine, I could read files from the DVD mounted
at the RH base system's /mnt/cdrom device (which is really a DVD ROM
drive) from the 2nd telnet into the installation bootstrap system.
Then I tried it with the configuration dialogs, and this response to
the NFS option's request for the nfs mount point also worked:
-o ro,nolock,nfsvers=2 server:/mnt/cdrom
So, I am off and running with an install from the DVD of Debian-390.
I will report back when I'm done with the install and let everyone
know how it works. I am wary of using nolock, though I suppose it
won't hurt in my single-system setup. I will also try it without
the nolock option and see if that makes a difference.
When I'm done with this install (and a few testing upgrades I need
to make to work on a project I'm on), I'll post a mini-HOWTO to the
files section here for those who want to try it.
More as it happens.
Peter
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