CentOS - Dec 2018 - CentOS7 kickstart question

Stephen John Smoogen writes:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 05:02, isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it not possible to use an nfs based repo for kickstart under CentOS
7.5?
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> > repo --name=epel --baseurl=file://server/path/to/local/copy/of/epel
> >
> 
> So the syntax looks to be
> 
> repo --name=epel --baseurl=nfs://server:/path
> 
> that colon after server is not a spelling error.
> https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#id48
 
That seems to work now. Some error messages made it look like nfs: wasn't
supported at all.
Thanks.

> > So the syntax looks to be
> > 
> > repo --name=epel --baseurl=nfs://server:/path
> > 
> > that colon after server is not a spelling error.
> > https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#id48
>  
> That seems to work now. Some error messages made it look like nfs:
wasn't supported at all.
> Thanks.
Well, I spoke too soon - forgot to update the template and the test vm still
kickstarted with http repos.

This is not working, the problem persists as described in my original post.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:04 AM isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > So the syntax looks to be
> > >
> > > repo --name=epel --baseurl=nfs://server:/path
> > >
> > > that colon after server is not a spelling error.
> > >
https://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart-docs.html#id48
> >
> > That seems to work now. Some error messages made it look like nfs:
> wasn't supported at all.
> > Thanks.
>
> Well, I spoke too soon - forgot to update the template and the test vm
> still kickstarted with http repos.
>
> This is not working, the problem persists as described in my original post.
>
>
Try using the IP address of the nfs server. e.g:

 repo --name=epel --baseurl=nfs://10.0.0.10:/path

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