image transfer problem

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:59:42PM -0000, lorenzo118 at interfree.it wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> I configured and installed FAI succesfully on the master of my (future) beowulf cluster. I'm trying to install first client: it get the dhcp offer, it continues the installation until this problem:
> 
> 
>           -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>            Fully Automatic Installation for debian GNU/Linux
>            FAI 2.8,  9 apr 2005               Copyright  (c)  1999-2005
> 
>            Thomas Lange                   <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
>            -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Calling task_confdir 
> Kernel parameters: ip=dhcp devfs=nomount  FAI_ACTION=install root=/dev/nfs FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-install
> Reading /tmp/fai/boot.log
> 
> 
> At this point it halts, after a while  it writes:
> 
> Mount: RPC: Remote System Error - Connection Timed Out
> WARNING: directorty /fai/class not found.

by default, the dhcp server which returned info on request will be used as
NFS server. If you want to use another one, use the next-server option in
dhcp.conf

Check whether your NFS server would export the fai directory to the 
newly assigned (by dhcp) address.

S

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