[CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

Tue Jan 29 16:11:30 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

nate wrote:
> 
>> Are there any known issues with kickstarting over nfs with jumbo frames?
> 
> Is the system your kickstarting configured with jumbo frames? Last I checked
> I didn't see an option to enable jumbo frames during kickstart.
> 
> If not, are you able to force TCP for NFS? UDP doesn't have MTU
> discovery as far as I know, so traffic will likey fail.
> 
> Any reason not to use HTTP for kickstart? Faster, simpler, runs
> over TCP..

Doesn't this take a considerable amount of setup work on the server side 
per-distro/per-version?  For NFS you only have to download images into 
directories under an nfs export.

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   Les Mikesell
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