problems w/ net (http) install

[Matt Nicholson]

Okay, so, I just downloaded my custom bootcd and kickstarted a VM in
virtualbox here @ home {(everything else is @ work). And yep. no problems
doing the install over http. So, now I'm not sure if it was a symtom of the
VM i was doing my test installs in @ work, if the speed (1GB) of the
connection to the system was over running things (I'm on cable @ home, so
its fast, but not that fast), so what, but, it doesn't seem to be a "Fedora"
problem now so much as problem with my setup.

I must admit, I'm a Ubuntu/Debian guy, but do a lot of RHEL @ work. I
haven't had much interaction with the Fedora Community, and this was my
first email to this list. Its a really good impression, what with the
helpful suggestions and all, on such an odd issue. I'm sure I'll return.

Thanks,
Matt

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Matt Nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com> wrote:

> Craig,
>
> For your 4 points:
>
> NFS isn't strictly off the table, but the system hosting this install tree
> will need to be accessible from alot of system across a large number of
> subnets/VLAN's. I would rather have port 80 open to these nets/the world
> than NFS, but then again I can just make it an "ro" export. Something to try
> next week.
>
> I'm not mounting the iso's, but rather have full fledged, rsync'd copies of
> the install tree, local on disk.
>
> No energy saving on the Xserve. It doesn't powerdown/spin down at all,
> ever.
>
> The Xserve is running Leopard Server, 10.5.3. Unfortunatly, no erros in
> the logs. Everything looks normal.
>
> And Rick,
>
> Nope the packages aren't big ones, fairly standard, 1MB-ish packages,
> although the packages do change. The keep alive is set at 300 seconds, which
> = 5 minutes. The thing is, this is all happening while anaconda is preparing
> to install (ie, not when its acctually downloading and installing the rpms,
> the set jsut before that starts). It zips right though until it hits one of
> these files. If it wasn't interupted, the whole thing could finish in maybe
> 1 minute, if not less, so I don't think timeouts are an issue. I've even
> up'd the number of conenction Apache allows, and the nubmer of servers it
> spawns, jsut incase anaconda was hammering it with too many requests.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> wrote:
>
>>      I. On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:45 -0400, Matt Nicholson wrote:
>> > Greetings everyone,
>> >
>> > So, I'm trying to setup a local server for some net-installs I hope to
>> > do with a kickstart file. I am, however, running into an issue.
>> >
>> > I have a copy of the fedora 9 install media on the web server that the
>> > install will be pulled from, and everything is in tip top shape. This
>> > server is actually a fairly new Xserve, and I am using it simply
>> > because it is available, has to disk-space and bandwidth, and is a
>> > pretty fast system for multiple systems to kickstart aganst. I would
>> > rather be doing this off a Fedora/RHEL server, but, this is what I
>> > have for the time being.
>> >
>> > Anyways, I've rsync'd the install media to the server, and its
>> > accessible, however, durring the install, I always get a file or two
>> > (sometimes different, sometimes the same), that anaconda spits back at
>> > me, saying it could not find/read the file, make sure its not
>> > currupted, etc etc etc. I can reboot, or retry, and retry always
>> > works, that is, until it hit the next file ti doesn't like. I get
>> > about 3-4 of these per install, EVERY TIME. I've checked, the files
>> > are there, they are the right size, I've even done an MD% of them and
>> > they match their sources. I even re-rsync'd the whole thing a few
>> > times.If this is a one time deal, I wouldn't mind, but I need to be
>> > able to basically start an install (via kickstart) and walk away.
>> >
>> > Now, normally, I would just say forget it, and do it over FTP, but FTP
>> > on this Xserver is very, very slow, and my installs, while succeeding
>> > without error, are about 10 times longer with the same package set.
>> > Also the network alyout means NFS is off the table as well.
>> >
>> > Any ideas? I would love any insight.
>> ----
>> I'd be curious about why the network layout means that NFS is off the
>> table but HTTP is on the table.
>>
>> Anyway, are you 'loop' mounting the ISO files? Is there something that
>> delays reading the files?
>>
>> Is Energy saving allowing the hard drive to spin down on the XServer?
>> (Mac's sometimes default to sleep modes with hard drive spin down which
>> would be a mistake for a server).
>>
>> What OS is on the X-Serve? Are there errors in the web server logs on
>> the X-Serve?
>>
>> Craig
>>
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