[CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file

[Keith Roberts]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, John Hodrien wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
>
>> I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS
>> problem.  We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE.
>> It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which fails.  What I'd love to learn
>> is how others have made NFS/Kickstart work...
>
> Is CentOS 6 assuming NFSv4 by default perhaps?
>
> Worth doing a tcpdump on your NFS server to see?

Yes. Also Wireshark GUI is your friend running on the NFS 
server, if you have a cutdown desktop to use it from?

That should give you some indication in real time of the 
attempt to access the NFS server from your various clients.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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