Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 01:32:54 -0800 (PST) From: w.knowles@niwa.cri.nz To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/2602: NFS installation does not mount remote partition for 2.2-GAMMA? boot disk Message-ID: <199701280932.BAA02700@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199701280940.BAA02971@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2602 >Category: misc >Synopsis: NFS installation does not mount remote partition for 2.2-GAMMA? boot disk >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 28 01:40:01 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Wayne Knowles >Organization: National Inst of Water & Atmosphere >Release: 2.2-BETA >Environment: FreeBSD zl2bkc.ppp.niwa.cri.nz 2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE #2: Sun Jan 19 20:56:03 NZDT 1997 wdk@zl2bkc.ppp.niwa.cri.nz:/home/FreeBSD/3.0-current/src/sys/compile/ZL2BKC i386 >Description: Due to high tariff costs on international traffic I have been doing several "make release" builds of RELENG_2_2 Boot floppy of Jan-26ish does not mount the requested NFS partition and the distribution files are not found. "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This could be because they are not available on the installation media You've chosen: bin doc manpages proflibs dict" Both the 2.2-BETA and an early Jan boot floppy have worked correctly. With debug option turned on, there is no message to say that the filesystem has been mounted. In fact it looks like mediaInitNFS() is never called If you specify a totally invalid NFS partition to mount, no error is given. >How-To-Repeat: make release a RELENG_2_2 boot floppy Start an express installation, select minimal Distribution Select NFS as media and give the correct path for the distribution Start the Extract >Fix: This is probably caused as a side effect of other changes. I am capable of finding the cause & fix myself, but it is probably a 5 minute fix for someone who is familiar with the sysinstall internals. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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