From: jack@solucorp.qc.ca (Jacques Gelinas) Subject: SLS 1.01 NFS install. How to set my IP Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 06:33:25 GMT
I have a fully functionnal LINUX 99.6 doing TCP and NFS with a
Sparc server. I am trying to install the new SLS 1.01 from the
net on this already operationnal Linux machine. I am trying to
do it from scratch. This post is about installing Linux from a
NFS server, not about configuring an already installed Linux
for networking.
I am toying with the new SLS single install disk (impressive).
I am trying to install using NFS. The command doinstall ask
for the IP number of the server and the directory to mount.
But it never asks me about my IP number. It sticks with the
preset 192.0.2.129 on the boot disk.
So before firing doinstall, I reset the value with the config
command.
My server has the adress 222.111.13.19. It knows about
my PC at the adresse 222.111.13.20 (Since this PC is already
an operationnal Linux 99.6 NFS client).
So after booting I have done:
config -n 222.111.13.0 -r 0.0.0.0 eth0 222.111.13.20
If I do ping, I do see the led flashing on the ethernet card. So
the bits are getting out. The Sparc never answered. Of course doinstall
failed to mount the server. Another Server (running Linux) on the same
net (222.111.13.30) fail to answer.
A ping from the sparc told me that Linux was alive on the other
side.
After toying and really begging the sysadm of the Sparc ... me :-),
I have
change the IP number of the sparc to put it on the same IP net
than Linux at boot time (192.0.2.130). This is something you will never
be able to do in real life. The last thing a sysadm want is to
shut down its server for fun. Anyway, doinstall was able to mount
the server and to install all Linux like a dream :-)
It's look like it is something that is not reset properly when
I reprogram my IP number. I have tried to shut down the ethernet
card with the command.
config -d eth0 222.111.13.20
And then, doing the config again. No success.
Anyone succeed in installing using NFS ?
My best guess would be that the ARP database which translate
the IP number to ethernet number is not reset properly. I have
noticed that at some point in my test, the command
/usr/etc/arp -a
on the sparc showed me the ethernet number of the Linux
I was trying to installed, but with the invalid boot time
IP adress (192.0.2.129). I have deleted this entry in the arp
database of the sparc using the command
/usr/etc/arp -d 192.0.2.129
No success
Thanks in advance!
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