Jumpstarting from an NFS server without mknod abilities?

Jumpstarting from an NFS server without mknod abilities?

Post by coeh.. » Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:00:42



I am trying to use Microsoft Windows NFS server (Services for Unix)as a
filesystem to install Solaris clients using jumpstart. The NFS service
does not support the creation of device files. Does that make
installation from this NFS server impossible?
 
 
 

Jumpstarting from an NFS server without mknod abilities?

Post by Michael Tosc » Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:32:50



> I am trying to use Microsoft Windows NFS server (Services for Unix)as a
> filesystem to install Solaris clients using jumpstart. The NFS service
> does not support the creation of device files. Does that make
> installation from this NFS server impossible?

The boot image is read-only, so no new device files are created over NFS.
But the device files must of course be present.

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1. NFS mknod pipe failure: OpenBSD server, SunOS client

Hi,

I hope this is neither an FAQ nor a RTFM case...

building fileutils-4.0-b5 on my SunOS-4.1.4 machine in a directory
NFS mounted from OpenBSD-2.3/sparc (CD-ROM), I came across the
following weirdness in the behaviour of ``mknod filename p'':

        Issued from     OpenBSD server          SunOS client

Issued by

root                    works                   works

non-root                works                   FAILS

I could not find anything in the manpages that would explain this.
Is this a bug or a feature?

        Volker

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