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Old 04-21-2009, 10:00 PM   #1
Laserjock
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NFS install fails to mount directory


I am trying an NFS installation RHEL 5.3 over my private network, booting from a CD, but I get the error message "That directory could not be mounted from the server" when I specify connection info. Trying to connect to a CentOS 5.3 machine running NFS. Steps I took:

1. Since I only have the physical RHEL 5.3 DVD and not an iso file, I copied it over to a new dir with the dd command:

Code:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=/mnt/rhel/RHEL5.iso
2. Added /mnt/rhel to /etc/exports:

Code:
/mnt/rhel *(ro,no_root_squash)
3. Opened up NFS port in firewall using system-config-securitylevel. (Incidentally, SELinux is disabled.)

4. Restarted NFS:

Code:
service nfs restart
5. Verified file permissions on /mnt/rhel for readable/executable by all.

6. showmount -e returns

Code:
/mnt/rhel *
7. On the client machine, I run the boot loader from CD (in VMWare, using bridged networking) and specify the NFS machine info when it prompts for NFS image:

NFS server name: 192.168.1.11
RHEL Dir: /mnt/rhel

And I get the error message. I can ping 192.168.1.11 from the host Windows machine. Did I do everything correctly on the NFS side? Supposedly I do not have to mount the iso if I'm using NFS here, so I'm out of ideas as to what is wrong. Or is it likely there is some networking connectivity issue here?

Any help appreciated!

Last edited by Laserjock; 04-21-2009 at 10:16 PM. Reason: typos!
 
Old 04-22-2009, 12:24 AM   #2
linuxlover.chaitanya
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i do not know if I am correct to the core but when I tried this NFS install I did not copy dvd as iso image but as data in a directory. Just mount the dvd. Copy the contents as you would copy any data with cp -r command. And then export the directory via NFS.
 
Old 04-22-2009, 08:23 AM   #3
Laserjock
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Thanks, Linuxlover. I tried what you suggested, copying the dvd over using cp -ra to a new directory, /mnt/rhel2. I then added that dir to /etc/exports and restarted NFS, and verified that showmount -e returned both /mnt/rhel and /mnt/rhel2.

Still no joy when trying to connect from the client vm. So, I disabled the firewall on the server machine and now it looks like I can run the installer from both directories, /mnt/rhel and /mnt/rhel2, so I guess it was a port issue.

Anyone have a good doc on pinning down the nfs ports, making them static so I can enter them into iptables? Because enabling the standard "NFS" entry in the firewall isn't always letting NFS traffic through. Looks like there are a lot of ports associated with the NFS process and they're different almost every time I bounce the process.
 
Old 04-22-2009, 08:37 AM   #4
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Looks like I just found an answer to my own question in the RH Knowledgebase:

How can I configure a system as an NFS server which sits behind a firewall with NFS clients outside of the firewall?
 
Old 04-23-2009, 12:22 AM   #5
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Good to know you got it working. And nicer thing is you posted the link that helped you out. This should definitely help someone else who wants to install linux via NFS.
 
  


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