I am trying to mount an nfs drive in the post kickstart section. I am getting an error on "service nfs start" about cannot register service RPC What do I need to start first? jerry
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:11:48PM -0500, Jerry Geis alleged:> I am trying to mount an nfs drive in the post kickstart section. > I am getting an error on "service nfs start" about cannot register > service RPC > > What do I need to start first?ifup lo service portmap start mkdir /path mount server:/path /path And you don't want 'service nfs start', that is for exporting filesystems (starting the "nfs server", if you prefer). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080208/d9d11485/attachment.sig>
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 at 3:11pm, Jerry Geis wrote> I am trying to mount an nfs drive in the post kickstart section. > I am getting an error on "service nfs start" about cannot register service > RPC > > What do I need to start first?http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Installation_Guide/s2-kickstart2-post-examples.html -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jerry Geis wrote:> I am trying to mount an nfs drive in the post kickstart section. > I am getting an error on "service nfs start" about cannot register service > RPC > > What do I need to start first?Make sure the nfs-utils package and any other packages needed for nfs to work are installed before you get to %post. I do not remember needing to worry about this in C4 and earlier but it bit me when I did my first kickstart install of C5. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com