Alessandro Barbieri ,
Your email system is severely misconfigured (Actually, I think that that's
part of why you have problems with nfsroot, but see later).
As I didn't want to waist those good 8 minutes I spent chewing up an
answer to your email, I'm now sending it to debian-user. I've already
tried sending it to: root@whizzy.rippa.mn.it, and another root
account, whose name escapes me. Both fails, and basically, your
email headers don't give me any clues to who else I can send email to.
> Hi Mr Joost,
> I am debian/linux newcomer, so be patient.
> I chose debian because of the nfsroot package, which, I believe, is
> something spectacular.
Thanks!
The main problem with my nfsroot package is I believe the description:
although it sortof is true in principle to set it up really easily,
it appears to be somewhat more difficult in practice. But
I hope I can help you with it.
> Due to my ignorance I couldn't succeded in making it work.
Reading the rest of your email, it doesn't sound like ignorance,
but something else probably failed.
> Only one problem:every few mins(200sec I think) I see a message like this
> logged by nrprobenet (I think):
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> /var/run/bootpid.pid no such file or directory
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Don't worry about that. I should get rid of that message, but apparently
bootpd does get restarted, as the client does get the correct clientip.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> invalid host ip#: qname=.. ....= ...=
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> or something similar.I'm very disappointed with approximation.Excuse me
> please.
Ah. So "mknfsroot clientname" does get run (that message is from mknfsroot,
I just changed all error messages from mknfsroot to also include the
name of the programme). I'd be interested in what that message
really was (did it really say "ip#", or did it have a valid IP number there?),
and what were the other strings?
>From "mknfsroot", the lines that print the above error message:
if test -z "$fqhostname" -o -z "$hostname" -o -z "$hostip"; then
echo "mknfsroot: invalid host: $host, fqname=$fqhostname, name=$hostname, ip=$hostip"
exit
fi
At least one of those strings was "" (empty), and this usualy points at
a misconfigured dns server (or an unassigned IP number). I'm sure
this is the source of your problem. Could you give me
> Last question:
> what do you think about a net boot with loadlin, as described in the
> "kernel korner" of LJ issue38.
That's something else I really should do some time. (but wait, not with
loadlin, but with that netbios stuff, or what was it's name? Get the
kernel over the network that's really cool).
> Thanks in advance Mr Joost for any reply.
It's OK to just call me "joost" (it's my first name).
Thanks,
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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