total NFS newbie needs help

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 13:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 23 January 2005 10:17, Terry Polzin wrote:
> >On Saturday January 22 2005 23:42, William Hooper wrote:
> >> Gene Heskett said:
> >> >>> So at this point I have no idea if the network driver
> >> >>> the installer has loaded is wrong or what.
> >> >>
> >> >> Check the log on the nfs server for connection attempts.
> >> >
> >> > It logs an authenticated connection but doesn't say if
> >> > successfull or not, here is all that shows up in messages:
> >> >
> >> > Jan 21 19:43:09 coyote rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request
> >> > from shop.coyote.den:786 for /usr/dlds-misc/FC3
> >> > (/usr/dlds-misc/FC3)
> >>
> >> That would tend to rule out the network driver then.
> >>
> >> A couple more suggestions:
> >>
> >> Remove the extra ISOs.  You mention that you put all 9 in there. 
> >> I don't recall if it matters, but you might try removing all but
> >> the 4 needed for install.
> >>
> >> Double check permissions on the ISO files.
> >>
> >> It's been too long since I set mine up (and it is in a WBEL box),
> >> but my NFS export has the "no_subtree_check" option.  I seem to
> >> recall having issues until I added it.
> >
> >What are the perms on the NFS directory at the host?  I rembember
> > having a problem with this once a while back.  Check the archives,
> > I believe I posted my own problem and solutilon
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      4096 Dec 19 00:37 FC3
> and
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root   root        4096 Nov 11 19:49 download.fedora.redhat.com
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 646987776 Nov  3 17:05 FC3-i386-disc1.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 668520448 Nov  3 17:07 FC3-i386-disc2.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   667498496 Nov 11 22:59 FC3-i386-disc3.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   404764672 Nov 12 00:29 FC3-i386-disc4.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines  79908864 Nov  3 16:59 FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589832192 Nov  3 17:11 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589844480 Nov  3 17:12 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589815808 Nov  3 17:13 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines 589817856 Nov  3 17:15 FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso
> -rw-r--r--  1 jhines jhines       791 Nov  3 18:00 MD5SUM
> 
> ATM its moot, I *think* I have a cd install going, without any of
> the i18n stuffs though.
> 
> I note that a friend of mine is the owner etc of some of those,
> which is a puzzle because he doesn't have an account on
> this machine, nor can I give him one in view of my firewalling
> from the outside.  So I have a certified case of NDI how they
> got that owner:group attached.  They were downloaded by me, as
> root, using gftp since it can just keep hammering a slow site
> till it gets it all.  And most of redhats machines can be considered
> as somewhere between slow and really slow, often dropping well
> below 3k a second on a 90k a second dsl connection here, or just
> plain stopping, after 45 seconds of which gftp disconnects & retrys.
> 
> That makes trying to grab an iso pretty frustrating at times.  I'm
> only a state away, so to use the closest mirror means either duke or
> redhat themselves.  Theres one in Pittsburgh, but its connections
> are usually all used up.  I think its limit is 15 or some such. :(
> 

As far as the downloads go, sometimes the closest physically is not the
best choice.  I have often used a mirror site in japan and get much
faster speeds than from several of the sites here in the US.