I believe that using NFS, you would want to serve out the ISO and not the individual files...I remember someone cluing me in on that a while back. It is beginning to sound like you have a problem with one or more of your routers. Anyway, there are a number of packages that provide a lot of utility for Linux servers that aren't available for OS X server such as 'cobbler and mrepo' I heavily recommend mrepo (Dag package) that allows me to create a local mirror for any repos that I want, uses the ISO to create the 'base' and can also mirror the updates and also provides tftp package for installation and http server base for installation. With mrepo, every install I do is a kickstart. Craig On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 17:36 -0400, Matt Nicholson 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, MailScanner warning: numerical > links are often malicious: 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
