Installing 80 workstations with PXE

Hi all. I've setup a PXE server which runs perfectly. The installation
starts unattendent and all I have to do, is reboot the pc to log into Fedora
Core 4.

However, when I start the installation on more than one pc at a time (I have
80 installations to
make), the pc's obtain their IP address from DHCP, load the kernel into
memory, load the kickstart file and when they look for the ISO file (I
guess) it says: Unable to mount NFS Share.

But remember, one pc at a time, it work perfectly.

Here is the DHCP.conf file:

ddns-update-style interim;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.254;
default-lease-time 3600;
max-lease-time 4800;
option routers 192.168.0.2;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.2;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "l.pxeserver.com";
option time-offset -7;
option ntp-servers 192.168.0.2;
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.0.2;
filename "pxelinux.0";
}


Well, any idea?

Yanos
System Administrator

Yan Henrichon <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> However, when I start the installation on more than one pc at a time
> (I have 80 installations to make), the pc's obtain their IP address
> from DHCP, load the kernel into memory, load the kickstart file and
> when they look for the ISO file (I guess) it says: Unable to mount
> NFS Share.

Does the first PC you start in the group successfully mount the NFS
share, and the others get the message?

> But remember, one pc at a time, it work perfectly.

Does each machine you do in the one at a time mode get the same IP
each time?

> Here is the DHCP.conf file:

> ddns-update-style interim;
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.254;

Does the NFS server accept mount requests from IPs in that entire range?

rick jones
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Rick Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does the first PC you start in the group successfully mount the NFS
>share, and the others get the message?
Yes exactly.

Rick Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Does each machine you do in the one at a time mode get the same IP
> each time?
Yes exactly

Rick Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does the NFS server accept mount requests from IPs in that entire range?
Yes. I put an asterisk to make sure that there is no restrictions.

Thank you.



"Rick Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Yan Henrichon <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> However, when I start the installation on more than one pc at a time
>> (I have 80 installations to make), the pc's obtain their IP address
>> from DHCP, load the kernel into memory, load the kickstart file and
>> when they look for the ISO file (I guess) it says: Unable to mount
>> NFS Share.
>
> Does the first PC you start in the group successfully mount the NFS
> share, and the others get the message?
>
>> But remember, one pc at a time, it work perfectly.
>
> Does each machine you do in the one at a time mode get the same IP
> each time?
>
>> Here is the DHCP.conf file:
>
>> ddns-update-style interim;
>> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>> range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.254;
>
> Does the NFS server accept mount requests from IPs in that entire range?
>
> rick jones
> --
> denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, rebirth...
> where do you want to be today?
> these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
> feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

Yan Henrichon wrote:
> However, when I start the installation on more than one pc at a time (I have
> 80 installations to
> make), the pc's obtain their IP address from DHCP, load the kernel into
> memory, load the kickstart file and when they look for the ISO file (I
> guess) it says: Unable to mount NFS Share.
>
> But remember, one pc at a time, it work perfectly.
>
> Here is the DHCP.conf file:

Is there anything that makes you think it's a DHCP issue? From your
description it sounds as though the DHCP is fine. How many NFS clients
is the server configured for? What are the mount parameters (both on a
typical client and on the server)?

Any thing in dmesg on the NFS server? What about /var/log/messages.